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Message: [QUOTE="JohnFSilver, post: 4345532, member: 1618"] LOL. Remember when Rutgers got in and all anyone everywhere touted was cable box size? Same with Syracuse and Boston College. How quickly that fell on its face. ESPN, nor other rights holders, saw streaming coming (how they missed that disruption is fascinating and why I am not a sportswriter anymore). Now, it isn't about size of potential fan base, it is about intensity of fan support mixed with size. You need a big fanbase and brand while also having rabid intensity. If football gets off the mat again, UConn could have something because the men, when good, have an excellent fanbase and the women's program is a national crown jewel (Paige Bueckers is probably most known women's NCAA athlete currently in school). It doesn't overcome the football problem, but those are attractive ancillary pieces. UConn has everything you would want except a functioning football program. Mora's got a big job. Program overachieved first 10 years. Have underachieved last 10. [/QUOTE]