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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 1748269, member: 3850"] I don't think it was the "south" that made the difference. For FSU it was football...and it was a certain comfort from having played in the same Metro Conference together with Louisville. FSU played Louisville in the 1970's and 1980's in football...and had no football experience with UConn. Saying that, there are many fans like me who prefer a conference that is not spread over many regions, and the move into the northeast is still something the conference is struggling with. Rivalries, I guess, may be manufactured like the Civil Conflict, but it is difficult to build a great rivalry between programs far removed from each other.. Notre Dame has been one of the few programs that has done so over time. [/QUOTE]