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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5306480, member: 44"] Lol, it's literally in the same quote from the same article. It's disingenuous to take part of the quote as being valid and then discount the rest because it "it doesn't support (your) opinion. The material that you quoted from the globe actually points out that Connecticut [I]was [/I]an ACC target for expansion. Famously, Boston College blackballed Connecticut even though it was the ACC target along with Syracuse saying "We didn't want them in" he said. "It was a matter of turf. We wanted to be the New England team." At that point, ESPN[I] could have said [/I]"Connecticut is the team we want for expansion along with Syracuse." They did not. That is exactly the point. At the time the DeFillippo quote was published in the Globe it raised considerable uproar because it exposed ESPN as the manipulator of college conference realignment. They caught a considerable amount of blowback because of it. The quote from DeFilippo and ESPN attempting, unsuccessfully by the way, to walk that back came a little over a week later, as part of damage control. (I note that you conveniently omit the timing of those quotes from your post above.) Again, the material that you posted shows, unequivocally, that ESPN was the motivating behind the ACC's raid of the big east. It expressly states that "ESPN told (the ACC) what to do". At that point in time, and for every single ACC expansion, ESPN could have indicated that it preferred the university of Connecticut be one of the expansion targets. It did not. That is exactly the point. [/QUOTE]

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