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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 1995588, member: 364"] Time changes things. What could be more of a fit than a New England regional league for us to dominate. We had that ... it was the wondrous Yankee Conference and we didn't win it all the time in every sport. We had a very good hoop run and played competitively in football ... built our Soccer up. We outgrew it. University of Vermont is a wonderful school and great to visit. Just not a sports competition of ours except Hockey; and we might out-recruit them there in the near term. Maine? UNH? URI? See where this is going? BU doesn't play football any longer and their hoop had a guy named Pitino and then fell flat for decades. The Big East pseudo Catholic league is solid today. But ... we all have to admit that UConn took a turn to a National brand in the mid 1990s. ONLY UConn can look at the 39 million in the northeastern US in New York and New England and pull the Brand out as a Blueblood College Athletics program matched by a rising top 25 Public. That is not where Butler is. Nor Creighton. Or Marquette. Solid Privates in Cities. Some of the rest can waiver dramatically. Our we a match for UCF and USF and Temple and Houston? probably more so than the City privates. And, I do think we can nudge our way into something better. I don't think 65 remain in the P5. [/QUOTE]