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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4413655, member: 44"] Agree except I’m not sure how we blew our chance with the big 12. Once BYU became toxic because of intolerance, the expansion plan collapsed. The fact that Connecticut was considered one of the finalists for a conference that is absolutely a horrible geographic fit for us speaks to our brand value. In any event, the ACC is the way forward. We have a history with many of the teams in that league and some of them aren’t geographically miserable for us to get to. In all likelihood, we only join it after some of its top members leave to go to another conference. We won’t be making big 10 or SEC money, but at least we’ll be making enough to be relevant. The university really should be making an all out press to become AAU so that we meet one of the “supposed“ criteria of the big 10. It is, of course, highly unlikely we would ever get an invite, but that would help at least nominally. [/QUOTE]