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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 2693274, member: 7301"] There is another Board on the Boneyard dedicated to Conference Realignment. The posters on that board have debated every aspect of realignment in all it's permutations ad nauseum. That board is slowly dying as most of the posters there have realized that there is no way out of the AAC to a P5 conference in the near term. Uconn as an institution is not giving up on it's aspiration to join a P5 conference, but they know that it is a long term goal not a near term. Uconn has many of the qualities needed for P5 acceptance, including a great Athletic Department, a world class WCBB team, a nationally recognized MCBB (most NCAA champs in a 20 year period), outstanding record in NC for Olympic sports, First Class Academics (#52 USNR), First Class media and marketing metrics and on and on and on. But the negatives are there too. BC, Miami and Syracuse all seek to block us from the ACC. While our athletic accomplishments are really good we are not "old school", blue blood, we have little national history. Our football team was rising under Edsal but fell into an abyss when he left, at the worst possible moment in realignment. And while KO started strong, the men's team is at a low. All of this is being corrected, but even so, it will take a shift in the dynamics (media money, media contracts & media outlets shifting, broadcast- cable- streaming) to create another wave of realignment. And that's not happening right now. If your interested in an in depth analysis of this check out the Realignment Board, it was once vibrant. And especially CL82 posts. He is very knowledgeable on this subject. [/QUOTE]

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