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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3122342, member: 1526"] I suspect our administration was asleep at the wheel yet again, judging by our woeful track record for the past 10 or more years. Why are we always reactive instead of proactive? It's the same thing that always happened to us in the old Big East. The whole league was held hostage by the Pee Cee mafia running the conference office. It's what caused the FB schools to bolt. Adding DePaul and Marquette was done only to insure a tie vote split down the middle between the FB and BB schools. The commissioner broke any tie votes between the two sides, which insured the BB schools always getting whatever they wanted, because Tranghese/Marinatto both came from the Providence AD. That entire structure was insane, and guaranteed the demise of the conference. It was totally short sighted, clinging to the outdated notion that BB still meant anything. It appears the AAC deal was pushed through because schools like ECU, Tulane, Tulsa, SMU and Wichita State don't have any Tier 3 rights that are worth a damn. With ESPN+, they got more exposure than they could have possibly dreamed of getting on their own. Again we appear to have allowed ourselves to be at the mercy of the bottom dwelling media rights schools in our league. When will UCONN wake up and learn from past mistakes? [/QUOTE]