Some fans of ACC schools, including ND, come here to say they feel UConn belongs in the ACC, and your attitude is 'screw the ACC' until we get in. Oh, well now I feel bad. I promise we will play nice from now on.
Not very friendly, is it? Especially when you are as defensive of the BeeOneGee and Rutgers as if you were in the former because the latter demanded you be admitted. Maybe it is "unfriendly," as you say, but it becomes warranted when you suggest that we should share your opinion. I think you mistake "defensive" of the B1G [oh no, I'm semi-illiterate now!] for preferring that conference to joining the ACC given an option. Defensive of Rutgers you say? Point out where our members are defending the addition of Rutgers. One source or one quote that shows that any UConn fan here thinks that Rutgers was a brilliant addition from an athletic standpoint. Is it possible that you are confusing understanding the financial purpose behind the decision as a tacit approval of the decision-making. That seems more likely, and I'll bet my bottom dollar that you don't see the irony in you having the gall to intimate that anyone else is semi-literate. The latter demanded that we be admitted? When? Where? To who? In what context? Did it actually happen or are you trying to grasp any straw you can to rationalize why anyone would prefer a conference other than the ACC? I'll save you the trouble: That has not happened. If you want to throw your opinion around this board, then fine, but don't make things up.
But UConn is not in the BeeOneGee, and only the naive think Rutgers has anyone involved with its sports who wants to share its NYC area status in the BeeOneGee with UConn, which would outshine poor pitiful Rutgers embarrassingly easily. I'd love to see the quote from this board anywhere that suggests that Rutgers wants to "share NYC" with UConn from a UConn fan. By the way, there is an ACC member who feels exactly this way towards UConn with regards to New England.
And why does such a common, for this UConn board anyway, pattern of openly despising the ACC bother those of who who have said we think UConn belongs in the ACC? Because one thing that conference commissioners and school ADs have learned from the past few years is that the opinions and attitudes of fans online matter. They matter so much that should the Big 12 come apart, and both the ACC and SEC expand to 16, WVU will get an invite from neither. The main reason is that WVU fans online have so befouled the reputation of the sports programs they love that nobody wants to get near them. WVU befouled the reputation of its fans well before they were invited to the Big 12, and that didn't stop them from driving a Brinks truck through the meth labs and moonshine distilleries to pay them. Side note: If you are going to use a definite phrase such as "the main reason" to prove [sorry, state your opinion] a point, then provide a link to support it. Not one person who has brain cells reads this and believes it.
If UConn fans get a reputation for bitterness morphing into a WVU level of hatred for the ACC, then there may be little that UConn administrators can do to overcome the new bad reputation of UConn fans. What good did the "good reputation" of Uconn fans do for it over the past few years?
Now if UConn were absolutely certain of an invite from the BeeOneGee, and/or the Big 12, that might not be so bad. But any potential limiting of options in this climate is not the most wise path. I'll make sure to tell John Swofford next time I see him that we're just really passionate.