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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 3193897, member: 6845"] First, absolute props for the Shawshank reference. Second, I haven't weighed in to this point because, like with almost every argument on the 'yard I can see and sympathize with both sides. The AAC seemed to be getting better year-by-year in both [B]football*[/B] and basketball. There was a not-insignificant chance that enough AAC football teams would get good enough to challenge the power conferences in bowls regularly. Maybe not Alabama, Auburn or OSU, but most others were on the table for competitive games for Cincy, Temple, Memphis, Houston. Plus, rivalries and conference growth takes time. But that AAC contract stunk to high heaven, and tied things up until 2032, no matter how good the football got. Ugh. And UConn is basketball first and second, baseball and field hockey and soccer and hockey third, and football fourth. The conference was always a marriage of red-headed step children, and while in the conference we were one of them. Still, I agree on that intangible feeling. I have that too, and it's sad. Hoping that as an independent the school can schedule and recruit well enough to keep football going, and that a P5 eventually comes calling. There are a lot of schools that lose money on their athletic programs, but keep them going anyway for other reasons. [B]*except us[/B] [/QUOTE]