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We are UConn!! 4>1 But 5>>>>1 is even better!
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I hope to be here. And yes Temple could be an alternative. It faces the same difficulties Rutgers or any school that is trying to become a player faces. Personally I would have taken UConn, Temple and Rutgers over UConn, Cuse and Pitt at the time if I were the ACC and would be laughed out of this forum, never mind the ACC for this choice. Heck I wouldn't even have you as an ally. Add BC and Maryland and that would have been a good core of 5 northeastern universities with close proximity to get something started.We can revisit this in 10 years, and Rutgers will remain insignificant. We'll just have to agree to disagree. I know some laughed yesterday when I posted that Temple could provide to the ACC everything that Rutgers does to the Big Ten and more since Temple can at least win a basketball game. I still believe it. I don't know if the ACC would go that route, but it's available to them.
Those five universities would have a lot of work to do to get to a situation where they were relevant in football. But if they did they would dominate the last market still open to following college sports.
Would FSU or Clemson have liked that. Absolutely not. But FSU and Clemson have been getting top ten football classes for many years now and they have only shown periodic blips of doing something with those classes. When they chose Ville, don't you think they were doing the same thing all those in power do when wanting to avoid their population from over scrutinizing them. They divert attention away from themselves. So the FSU and Clemson administrations are going to make the case that the reason's for their shortcoming in performance in football was due to the weakness of the ACC as a football conference as opposed to their inability to get the right coaches. They'll blame the Virginia and North Carolina contingent as being the reason behind their failure. And it works because, as this forum demonstrates, we all don't add up 1 + 1 the same way or get the same results.
I would counter the Clemson and FSU argument with the logic that says if they couldn't go undefeated in a conference where everyone else is extremely weak, what makes anyone believe they could win in a conference that is composed of two or three programs of top ten quality. But what do I no what is logical.