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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3161218, member: 1526"] Sadly, it's like a repeat of our early years in the old Big East. We hadn't learned how to compete in the recruiting game. Our other Big East brethren were all cheating their asses off. Meanwhile, we were still trying to maintain academic standards as if we were Harvard or Yale. As recently as Calhoun's first season we disqualified Gamble and Robinson for failing to meet UCONN's own academic standard, even though they were both NCAA compliant. We repeatedly torpedoed our own program in the interest of academic integrity, resulting in getting clobbered on the court. We started having success when we began playing that game like everybody else was at that time, admitting marginal qualifiers and perhaps even non-qualifiers with some "creative transcripting." The same thing is going on now, only it's shoe company $$$ instead of academics. It always seems to take us several years longer than everybody else to wise up. [/QUOTE]