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Message: [QUOTE="Uconn10922, post: 4691813, member: 2074"] I absolutely do not want to move to the Big 12. We will lose more as a program than we could possibly gain. Including….. 1. MSG being filled with UCONN fans. No matter where in the middle of nowhere they decide to play their conference tournament, UCONN fans will not travel that far to attend. The conference tournament ceses to be special. 2. UCONN goes from being a major player in an excellent basketball conference to a small fish in a huge football dominated conference. For those who think that UCONN is going to have a meteoric rise in football by playing teams that are light years ahead of them and that they are going to listen to us the same as they do the more established football programs….wake up!!!! They have 0 respect for our football program. They just want to get in the New York market. Once in the Big 12 we would have zero influence because football rules. 3) We lose our home court advantage in recruiting in the North East. In the Big 12 there are no easy trips for the families to see their kids play and there is no guarantee of playing in the Mecca if Basketball MSG. All we will be able to get is paid mercenaries which puts us in the same boat with everyone else, constant roster turnover. Money doesn’t solve everything and Benedict shouldn’t mess with what’s working. Being greedy will only make UCONN lose what makes it special. Just ask Cuse, Pitt and BC. [/QUOTE]