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Message: [QUOTE="KryHavok, post: 5072816, member: 12905"] Nah mate, I'm note that played for college guy. I am a proud alumnus who is tired of seeing his uni publicly dragged through the mud and slandered as not good enough time and time again. As I wrote, I never put [B]any [/B]stock or belief in any of the CR rumors on UConn because I know better. UConn has been the one university that has been maligned over and over and for what valid reason? The only other school that can compare is SDSU when they wanted to join the PAC12, other than that, when most other schools were associated with the call-up, they were actually called up, but never us. Name another school that had to make multiple pitches to 2 major conferences over a decade and got rejected every time. It's that duality that antagonizes me and mars the reputation of my school. That as well as some shidiots in their self-made studios pontificating that UConn will never be good enough for Px blah blah blah. I cannot control said shidiots, but it sucks seeing this play out so damn publicly. I looked at Thamel's piece on the Big12-UConn pause and see 83% of the respondents like the decision while 12% laugh at our misfortunate...why we are so hated is beyond me (and yes, I get that winning a lot in basketball may have something to do with that, but by the same token, does the rest of the sporting world hate UCLA for their BB titles?) As for the tourny you mentioned, just recall the NIT used to be the main tournament until it was supplanted by the NCAA tourney. If the Px want to break away and create a new one, who's to say they can be stopped? When LSU starts getting UConn level talent because of the money following into that program, the eyes will likely shift. Georgetown was great a long time ago, now not so much. I don't want UConn becoming like that. [/QUOTE]

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