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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 3004091, member: 504"] Exactly. I’m a gray beard. I went to UConn in Yankee Conference days. We hated UMass and especially URI. Our most major sport was men’s hoops, there was no women’s team. The men’s team was a regional power with some occasional notable national win. The students filled the old field house every game. Our football was at best average with a few occasional NFL prospect. Nobody cared that we weren’t going to be a national champ so long as we could beat our main rivals, hopefully win the hoops conference title and make the NCAA ourvif not, the NIT. The Big East was great fun in hoops especially and, of course, the rise of our Women’s team. Having rivals like BC,Providence, Syracuse, St. John’s, Rutgers and Villanova made it interesting. Every game in the AAC feels like an out of conference game. It doesn’t mean you can’t have an occasional rivalry develop when your a winning team facing another winning team for a few years like our men’s hoops had with Georgetown, but it’s not the same. The only kind of regional rival UConn has now is Temple and it ain’t the same either. But I still hate ND even when we aren’t playing them. Feels so good. [/QUOTE]