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[QUOTE="Chuck, post: 3899222, member: 1646"]
I personally take no pleasure in the trouble with Cincinnati and the AAC.  The AAC IS pretty good at football, but the P5 and NCAA won’t let them get better/wealthier.  Now some of that is just economics (if they had huge followings and success, the money (or invite) would be there), but the deck is stacked against them.  It’s similar in basketball.  A few of the schools care, but they are saddled with other conference-mates that don’t, and the aforementioned deck stacking against them.

Cincinnati, in my opinion, was always a forced rival.  UConn and Cincinnati are very different institutions.  But we were in a similar boat and I don’t take pleasure in them sucking.  To be clear, I want them to be worse than us (and the AAC worse than the Big East), but I’d be fine with them succeeding.

Regarding the situation at hand, Brannen needs to get in front of this if he has any chance of surviving in the near and long term.  I wouldn’t be surprised if Cincinnati is in a financial situation like UConn football with Diaco where they had to think outside the box (for better or worse) to come up with a way to get rid of him and afford a coach.
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