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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4017738, member: 44"] Disagree. Connecticut women’s basketball has incredible brand value nationally. It is talked about not only among women’s college basketball fans, but among men’s college basketball fans. I’ve personally heard it discussed on NBA broadcasts and on MLB broadcasts. There was a big brouhaha in the national media regarding the choosing of the women’s Olympic team because it contained "too many UConn players." We see that every four years. UConn women’s basketball has so much value that SNY pays $1 million to broadcast a portion of its games. There are many college football programs that do not have that proven market value. To say that the Connecticut women’s basketball program has no value is to be either deliberately disingenuous or woefully uninformed. Now, I don’t believe that anyone is going to invite us to a conference because of women’s basketball, but that’s a different thing than suggesting it doesn’t have value. Do you understand the difference? [/QUOTE]