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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 5027084, member: 504"] The Big East women league is really weak overall. absent UConn very few teams have a shot at beating strong teams and conference expansion and consolidation is making it worse for conferences like the BE, aggravated by the portal and realistically NIL as well. UConn football, even if it improves, is in independent never never land. The BE hoops for men is fine right now. Geno keeps the women relevant but the BE league alone won’t help the women if there is any significant drop off post Geno. For getting into a power conference, obviously only football matters, putting aside whether or not any of the big new conferences will expand further. Our men’s hoop program alone evidently doesn’t make us attractive and women’s hoops might as well not exist as far as being attractive for the power conferences. The other sports also might as well be nonexistent. There are no obvious Notre Dames, Rutgers and occasionally a few other nationally relevant teams in the new BE as there were in the old BE women’s league. I am not that optimistic about the post Geno era if a new coach is unable to continue upper level performance and recruiting if nothing changes for conference affiliation and football is the name of that game. From a personal perspective, I apparently meet the “older than dirt” test so anything beyond making it to dinner tonight probably doesn’t matter. Go Huskies. [/QUOTE]