BINGO!!
In my space, I want nothing to do with membership in a southern based conference where the vast majority of its member's heritage and region is slavery and segregation.
I'm a proud Northeastern brother. From my travels to the south I've always came away thinking there's an innate fear of northeasterns by southerners in almost all walks of life. The northeast has the best academic colleges, financial centers, media centers, hospitals etc..and yes, the outcome of a war fought over a 140 years ago. College football, however, is not one of them. and the threat of a potential powerful college football conference in the northeast has always scared the south. As it would be another symbol of northeast pride vs a sport the south considers a religion.
Because of its racist heritage, education has never been a priority in the south (high school and drop out rankings) To overcome this inferiority complex and with an unlimited supply of black athletes to pull from, southern schools have promoted its athletic programs as front porch exhibits for its schools to enhance their academic reputations. Which is one of the very same false analogies that Pitt and 'Cuse have been bamboozled into.
Through greed and a lack of critical thinking by some Big East member administratars and executives; they have provided espn and the acc with Uzis and shotguns to show up in the middle of the night and systematically pluck our members with impunity. And in the process divide and conquer the northeast college sports region to satisfy a deep seeded southern resentment for the northeast.
The truth of the matter is that the south and the acc in particular have been gunning for the Big East since 1985 when 3 tiny Catholic universities with a collective black student enrollment less than that of nc states's basket weaving classes went to the Final Four and smoked tobacco road in route. More recent, think of Pat Smmit's behavior when she lost out on Maya Moore. Not until the arrival of espn "south" could the acc pull it off, though.
I know this is not a view shared by the vast majority on this board. As the overriding theme has been acc or bust. But a minority of us, mostly black, view UConn not in a conference that masquerades progressive thinking and is a patsy to espn. But in a conference where we're not a slave to espn.
The agenda of economics first and foremost in this tight market can still be achieved without begging for membership into the very same conference that has caused the vast majority of instability in the Big East. Yes, it will take hard work. But UConn through the venue provided by the Big East has already done it. And will do it again!
With just the tip of the iceberg on the second raid revealed so far; does UConn really want to be aligned with such dishonorable people?
And by the way, since the vast majority of the performances of the revenue making sports falls on the shoulders of the black athlete. Ask bc fans and alums what moving to the acc has done for them in attracting high profile black athletes to its campus. For bc its personal, but it's not unique as pitt and cuse will discover if they make it to the acc.
