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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3834935, member: 1023"] Sorry. I missed the original post. FYI I am a UConn Alumnus. I competed for UConn for 3 years before a knee injury ended my athletic career. I have followed multiple UConn teams over the years, not just basketball. Over the last 25 or so years I typically attend at least one soccer game, one baseball game, a few hockey games, more hockey when they started playing indoors, lol, a few women’s games and while not exactly a UConn event I’ve gotten to a number of cross country and track & field events and rooted for any Huskies who are competing in those. Oh and my first UConn game was an NCAA game against BC at Keney Gym at URI. BC had a better team but Balisuknia kept us in it. If there had been a 3 point line...but there wasn’t. I find the myopic views of UConn basketball fans to be troubling for those of us who follow other sports. This faux Big East was a move which only benefitted basketball and maybe soccer and yet in my humble opinion it was taken to more to cover up the epic failure of the Athletic Department in hiring coaches than for any other purpose. I know it is going to be an absolute disaster for UConn baseball. It has already shown itself to be a negative for football. Big East baseball is a joke. And here’s the thing, it isn’t going to be that big a deal for basketball once the dust settles. The Faux Big East is a 1 team League. I keep calling it a legacy league because the media pretends it is the old Big East. As a result it’s teams get over rated which leads this circular ranking system. Since you play mostly conference games your rating gets bumped up win or lose. It is a bunch of pretty good teams plus Villanova and DePaul who are far above and far below the rest. Bottom line is this move was the sports equivalent of GEs move to Boston or Aetnas move to NY. Both were designed to take investors minds off failing leadership. Aetna ended up with no Manhattan hq and owned by a drug store chain. GE got kicked out of the Fortune 500 and sold off all its grand plans for Boston and is in rented space trying to plot a future. I’m very concerned that by throwing its lot in with a band of mid tier commuter colleges with few athletic resources UConn is heading down a similar road. [/QUOTE]

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