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Message: [QUOTE="Ewekon, post: 2082866, member: 785"] Please remember that UConn's APR citations and penalties were strictly voodoo perpetrated by Mark Emmert and the NCAA under increased public pressure. Conspiracy theorists will cite Emmert having been fired by UConn for being an historically negligent chancellor as a true indicator of revenge as motive. I find it hard to disagree. There is no question that the men's APR and graduation rates were atrocious in the early 2000s. That the rules were changed mid stream to single out UConn, a program that had demonstrably improved in all academic areas, is not speculation. It is fact. Jim Calhoun didn't have a lot of friends to have his back either. He didn't manage academics well but that doesn't change the fact that we were the only school subject to a liquid rules process that helped get us the death penalty. As for the semi death penalty of being relegated to the AAC, we can look no further than the exceedingly jealous and paranoid administration of Boston College and its former AD Gene DiFilippo. BCU bailed for the ACC in the midst of confidential strategy negotiations among Big East programs and an admittedly over zealous politico with higher aspirations in then Attorney General Dick Blumenthal sued BC (and Miami). BC, never without delusions of athletic grandeur, blocked UConn from joining the ACC in the second round of expansion to protect its laughingly unjustifiable self image as top dog in New England; status it never had and out of retribution toward the state of CT and the university for the lawsuit. In hindsight. We made the wrong enemies. [/QUOTE]

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