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[QUOTE="UConnSportsGuy, post: 5066891, member: 323"]
But it is completely misinformed.  Even if you only care about the Basketball Program (which is idiotic, but that is a separate issue), then you have to make the move to the B12.  You can be disappointed that it has gotten to the point it has, that is fine.  But saying "we don't need to make the change because we are have proven we can be successful in the Big East" is ignorant to what is going to happen to College Athletics in the next 5 years.

It is akin to the Blockbuster BOD laughing Netflix out to the boardroom in the year 2000 when they could have bought them for $50MM.  Blockbuster laughed them out of the room as they thought "we own 90% of the movie rental business and own the industry.  We don't need the online capabilities of Netflix as we can just dominate them out of the market".  We all know how that turned out.

The entire landscape of college athletics is going change in over the next 5 years.  If we do not make this B12 move now, then we will become irrelevant as an Athletic Department in 15 years.  While we may not be excited that we have gotten tot his point, it is the reality and we must adjust or die. Let's not be arrogant and end up like Blockbuster! :)
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