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Message: [QUOTE="olehead, post: 2743766, member: 4474"] Look stainmaster and friends, unbunch your panties. You are right, the location of a conferences' hdqtrs means nothing to recruits. I do not recall ever factoring it in my recruitment process. Nevertheless, conference relocation has significance relative to what's in the best interest of the conference. UConn men's basketball has failed the AAC as its crowning jewel and now the conference will hitch its wagon to the mid-south schools within the conference. Hdqtrs, in many cases is the locus for operations for an organization and the site is strategically selected for a sound business purpose. Facebook hdqtrs is in Silicon Valley rather than Austin or LA or NYC b/c it allows for them to focus on entities important to them, including tech. vendors, VC firms, start-ups, all of which are plentiful and easily accessible w/in Silicon Valley. Though NYC could work for Facebook, their focus isn't finance or law, it's tech. and their bottom line currently dictates they remain in Silicon Valley. Comparatively, the AAC and Aresco have decided its in their best interest to relocate to a region of the country, near schools w/in that region, that provide the best opportunity for conference success. So no, recruits don't look at the location of the conference headquarters, but the AAC move implies a deemphasis on UConn and the clout we had going into this league. This deemphasis may result in continued growth of Mid-South programs, including the programs along the I-35 corridor, and an increase in their marketability regionally. The result, continued diminishment of our Men's program all for the crapshoot of a P5 bid with a football program seeking to gain it's footing as a solid D-1 program. [/QUOTE]

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