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Message: [QUOTE="Ldandy, post: 4644043, member: 4584"] I could be misremembering, but I thought that one of the key issues was the football schools pushing for the addition of members like TCU and Boise State after The ESPN led raids. Under the before mentioned proposal, the division among schools would remain. On one side you have schools that need to protect their FBS Football Programs. On the other side you have schools that don't have this concern and don't want to be dictated to by the programs that do. I'll put this out there one more time and then I'll drop it. I understand that there are those here who love the current Big East and hate the idea of UConn playing in a "distant conference." You've had success so why change? You change because history has a nasty way of repeating itself. A hybrid conference with ND as the perpetual leech will suffer the same fate as BE1. It might not happen the same way, but it will eventually happen. Be active with your administration. Remind them consistently that UConn is too prominent of a university and an athletic department to be relegated to second tier status. Let them know that you know football independence for any school not named ND is a death sentence long term. Tell your leaders that they need to position the school for P5 Expansion without exception. UConn cannot maintain long term athletic excellence on G5 Money. Yormark is on record stating that he wants to play Big 12 Games in the NY Metro Area. Buy him a ****g map with Storrs circled in red marker on it. [/QUOTE]

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