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This day has admittedly been very difficult and I'm generally a realist. If things don't work out for UConn in this conference shuffle, there could be some rocky days ahead. There is one aspect of this move that is nagging at me and wonder if might play out in a positive way for UConn.
During the initial poachings, the teams that left the Big East left with the knowledge that there was still a nucleus being left behind. When Miami, VTech, BC left - thre was still WV, Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, and UConn. When Cuse and Pitt left last year, there was still Rutgers, Louisville, WV, Cinci, etc.
However, with last week's moves, and this morning's vote by the ACC, there really is no more core. With respect to Cincy, and South Florida, UConn is the last remaining team that has been the bedrock of this conference for the past 20 years. UConn's success on the court in the 90s and 2000s helped carry this conference through some dark years and through the bumpy road of the initial reallingment.
For the next year, these departing schools will have to periodically sit in the same room and look UConn in the eye, knowing that their moves run the risk of putting the athletic department figuratively "out of business" in regards to national sports.
Surely, there must be some way for these departing schools to help the last remainining Big East power school find a landing?
At this point, I'm simply holding out hope that the departing Big East schools will take a page from the U.S. Marine Corp. and refuse to leave "a man behind." It's naiive, but it's all I have at the moment.
During the initial poachings, the teams that left the Big East left with the knowledge that there was still a nucleus being left behind. When Miami, VTech, BC left - thre was still WV, Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, and UConn. When Cuse and Pitt left last year, there was still Rutgers, Louisville, WV, Cinci, etc.
However, with last week's moves, and this morning's vote by the ACC, there really is no more core. With respect to Cincy, and South Florida, UConn is the last remaining team that has been the bedrock of this conference for the past 20 years. UConn's success on the court in the 90s and 2000s helped carry this conference through some dark years and through the bumpy road of the initial reallingment.
For the next year, these departing schools will have to periodically sit in the same room and look UConn in the eye, knowing that their moves run the risk of putting the athletic department figuratively "out of business" in regards to national sports.
Surely, there must be some way for these departing schools to help the last remainining Big East power school find a landing?
At this point, I'm simply holding out hope that the departing Big East schools will take a page from the U.S. Marine Corp. and refuse to leave "a man behind." It's naiive, but it's all I have at the moment.
