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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4754394, member: 1609"] The UConn ability to get into a power conference has taken so many hits since the optimism of even 3 months ago. We have plummeted to the worst position since the Big East was initially raided . To Recap Coming off a NC in BB , and an apparent somewhat revitalized football program stoked the confidence and we thought we were a hot commodity. The advances of the Big 12 were met with indifference in many quarters of UConn nation . We preferred the ACC or even Big East and a Big Time Independent football status if not ND than it’s little brother. (My hope was to leverage the the B12 flirtation with an ACC invite even football only at zero money if necessary with a guarantee's number of men& women BB games .) We were not only rejected by the B12 but contrary to the brilliant BY minds the ACC expanded in defense of future inevitable raids excluding us and pretty much putting a stake through our heart The delusion of a Indy power fell apart in the reality that success at that level required a much bigger investment in football than we were willing to make . Finally Army shunning independence and getting a spot in the AAC moved that Indy dream even farther away The frosting on the Cake is that optimism of a football renaissance dies with each cut of another bleak Saturday loss . . [/QUOTE]