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Message: [QUOTE="Sea Goat, post: 5033935, member: 3716"] It was worse than that. We also got screwed conference wise in 2011 and 2012 and had to decamp to the dreadful AAC. We were in a BCS Bowl on 1/1/2011, in the midst of a 5 game win streak vs. Syracuse, and won our 3rd Natty in hoops on 4/4/2011. Then RE left and the conference crap started. To make matters worse, Warde Manuel (Susan Herbst's "rock star") was hired as AD after Hathaway was canned. It was a perfect storm. Through it all, we have adjusted and actually strengthened our hoops program, but football suffered. If football is going to make a return to competence, it will be because of a new conferences affiliation. Mora is doing as good as he can under the circumstances, but football needs a conference. If BB is taken over by the university participants ala CFP, that money will make us attractive to any conference. If so structured, March Madness will become the economic engine that will be our ticket to a real conference. [/QUOTE]