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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2045447, member: 37"] I respect your opinion and some of the others who disagree with me. I'm only presenting something for people to consider as opposed to insisting people agree with me. Half the time, as a moderator, I'm actually approving people's entry to this forum when they're debating me or worse. I understand your point about the lack of respect which is why I'm arguing strongly about this issue. The P5 have a disproportionate power advantage to all the remaining universities. My entire thinking is predicated on the ability of UConn to get into a P5 conference. As things currently stand I don't think any non P5 conference will be relevant in twenty years and that includes the NBE. So the short term gain to the bb program, as significant as it may be, will be at the detriment to any P5 inclusion imo. As an aside, when I discussed not getting into the Big 12 with JSM, it was because of the same long term picture. The Big 12 is ready to collapse and UConn would be hurt by this collapse if it were to get a Big 12 invite if nothing else was in play. I think a strong AAC development along with getting the UConn men's bb and football programs to a state of success will be the best chance of getting an invite to either the ACC or the B!G which is where I'd like to see UConn land. Now I'm approaching 70. The clock is ticking for me more than most of you young uns. You can be certain that I'm debating in my head the desire for immediate satisfaction over the long term satisfaction my scenario is considering. There's a possibility I may have sky box seats by the time that arrives. But I've always considered the long term in my evaluation process and will sacrifice short term happiness if I believe it negates long term success or if the long term success can end up with a significantly better outcome. Obviously the best case is short term and long term success. That's what I got when I met the gal I ended up marrying 42 years ago. [/QUOTE]

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