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See what I mean WESTHARTHUSK? ARROGANCE!
More so then, than now but UConn is considered a neophyte in big boy football. Since CR is about football , UConn cannot immediatley alter the perception of the level of ACC football. We didn't really have a BCS program in the first go round and recently the ACC needed to have programs with with any/some national panache(for the lack of a better word) even if it was due to historic rather than current success. Hence Pitt and Syracuse. The last go round, the ACC needed a better, current football program than the last two in order to satisfy its better programs, discourage them from leaving and from keeping the entire conference' perception as being too weak in football. UConn was late getting to the dance and we are paying the price for it now. That may change in the not distant future.Considering BC left 8 years ago don't you think it makes more sense to obsess over why the ACC most recently took Cuse Pitt and a pathetically poor academic school like Louisville over UCONN.
I would be wondering "what makes my school so toxic that no conference wants them".
This may seem way too simplistic but UCONN's problem starts and ends with their arrogance and entitlement mentality.
I know your first reaction will be to become very defensive, even pissed off, but that is part of what I am referring to.
Think about it for a while, apply it to circumstances where you feel UConn is getting the short end of the stick. It just may start making some sense.
Now Duncan gets it. Sensible read on the situation No arrogance or sense of entitlement.
So you admit that you're inferior?Westarthusk, you need to show some love and kindness to those of us who are less athletically and academically well off than you.
Treating people less fortunate than you so harshly will not place you in a positive light. People may even think you are being...arrogant!
. Any fellow Catholics on this board a little offended by that?
Notice I said a little offended
Westharthusk, you need to show some love and kindness to those of us who are less athletically and academically well off than you.
Treating people less fortunate than you so harshly will not place you in a positive light. People may even think you are being...arrogant!
Absolutely not. Just repeating what W.A.H. is stating. I particularly chuckled at his shot at BC's academic standing (what a fool) not to mention his pathetic attack on Catholicism. Any fellow Catholics on this board a little offended by that?
Notice I said a little offended
I really can't understand why the ACC wanted Boston College.
Seriously? Who should they have wanted instead?
At the time of the raid, they were a program with regular bowl appearances, and more significantly a national name because of some big upsets (eg, winning at #1 ND in the late 90s), and Flutie.
And they're in a huge media market, particularly compared to mostly medium-sized cities in ACC country.
And it's wealthy market, so attractive to advertisers.
Their performance in the past year (or even past decade), crappy as it is, is irrelevant, since the decision was made 10 years ago.
The ACC's other options were West Virginia, Pitt, and Rutgers. At the time, which was more attractive than BC?
This may seem way too simplistic but UCONN's problem starts and ends with their arrogance and entitlement mentality.
I know your first reaction will be to become very defensive, even pissed off, but that is part of what I am referring to.
Think about it for a while, apply it to circumstances where you feel UConn is getting the short end of the stick. It just may start making some sense.
The ACC's other options were West Virginia, Pitt, and Rutgers. At the time, which was more attractive than BC?
Here's the problem: the ACC has moved different because they have different problems than the B1G. The ACC was perceived in 2003, rightly, as the worst of the power 6. Miami and VT had both earned title game appearances, Syracuse and BC had been successful.West Virginia, Pitt, and Rutgers.