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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 1362685, member: 1414"] Myopia is a two way street. While most people in Connecticut look at the Big XII as "flyover country" please understand that they view Connecticut as an empty place between NY and Boston. While reality is that Morgantown VW really is an empty place between coal mines, the Big XII people know that WVU fans love them some college football. They don't see that from Connecticut. Markets are irrelevant to the Big XII. They have no network and aren't likely to. So all this nonsense about UCF and the Florida market is just that, nonsense. Similarly UConn's location is straight negative. Terrible travel, no recruiting base, no base of Big XII alumni. That's what they are looking for. Don't apply the metrics that the B1G values to the Big XII, they are not the same, not even close. The Big XII wants a football school, in a football friendly location, where Big XII people/fans are likely to be. BYU is really the only school that fits for them, since they failed to lure FSU or Clemson. I continue to believe that the B1G would really like to grab OU, KU and Mizzou and add UConn to them. Nebraska, OU, KU, Iowa and Mizzou absolutely lock up that region for the B1G. UConn plus Rutgers, plus Penn State and Maryland and many B1G Alumns in DC and NY create critical mass in the northeast. The quality of football and basketball would be pretty staggering. [/QUOTE]