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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 1587555, member: 71"]
Cincinnati is the CR (in the context of the B-12 considering expansion in the current environment) version of a safety school.

While not great, they won't be an embarrassment as a football program.

While not great, they won't be an embarrassment as a basketball program.

They have an NFL stadium down the road that can be used when larger (Texas, Oklahoma) programs come to town.

They are in a very fertile recruiting region (Stoops scheduled a home and home with UC not quite a decade ago solely for the access to him home states recruiting grounds) which will be an ancillary benefit (look at Maryland and New Jersey for the B1G) to the conference even if they fall short in performance.

I don't see them as a lock in any way, shape or form and in comparison to us and BYU, their best falls short of what UConn's best and BYU's best are.  They are likely the least risky choice and would also likely be the easiest to get a consensus agreement on.
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