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Message: [QUOTE="Jimbo, post: 4714380, member: 6751"] I hate that I think this. But our best chance to avoid a long, slow decline (and being on the wrong side of the Great Schism of college sports, whatever form it takes whenever it occurs) is probably the damn Big 12 again. Maybe they continue being aggressive and decide to add another pair of schools sometime in the next couple years, to keep pace with whatever the Big 10 and SEC are cooking up. And maybe it happens when Mora is still here and our football team is looking good. And maybe Yormark is still around, and maybe the presidents are smart enough to listen to him this time and figure out that "coast to coast" doesn't mean "locking down the entire state of Utah from the Nevada coast to the Colorado coast." And so maybe they vote to add UConn and some school on the West Coast like SDSU. And of course I recognize this is too many maybes to hope for, but it's still the best chance I can see for us. I do not see another path. I don't think the ACC makes any additions before FSU et al. find a way to weasel their way out of the GOR. After that happens and all hell breaks loose, the remnants of the burnt-out Zombie ACC might finally get around to inviting us, but at that point being a member of the burnt-out Zombie ACC won't be worth a lot. And it won't put us on the right side of the Great Schism when it happens. As others have said, we will be fine in the very short term. But nothing here bodes well for the long term. I hope I am wrong. [/QUOTE]

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