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Message: [QUOTE="CoastAtlantic, post: 1315286, member: 5174"] This is where I remind UConn people to understand the importance of parsing. You can't take "We could end up with 20-team conferences and four five-team pods" and "I don't think deregulating it just for the sake of deregulation is good" and conclude he wants a humongous expansion. The context of the phrase created by the sentence before the other sentence indicates a negative, not a positive. I think Delany is telling the rest of the power group that changes in the division format must be done in a way that prevents mega expansion. The sentence below that paragraph supports the statement. But of course, you're desperate for any good news to the point of misreading his words. Look, I think because of the legal nature of the Grants of Rights that there would have to be compromises should further realignment happen. Meaning any affected conference would need every member taken care of. None of the G5 conferences fit this description because they don't have the power to stop programs from leaving. However, the P5 conferences don't want multiple schools from the G5 to move up. Guess where there might be further realignment from? Within the P5 conferences. Whether or not it happens is another topic. All the P5 can choose to wait before the Grants of Rights are close to term and then make further moves. If there's any good news for UConn fans it is that there may be one more window of opportunity for that change to happen but you'd have to hope that one spot opens up for you when everything is said and done. And it may not happen at all. It looks like either one conference is absorbed into the other four or no more realignment for another ten years. Nothing in between. [/QUOTE]

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