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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3195863, member: 153"] I don't see why we continue to argue this, but Pitt also sued the ACC, and not only that, the Pitt President went on the warpath and personally insulted specific ACC presidents. And yet, a few years later, UConn was the top choice to join along with Syracuse, until BC blackballed us. At the end of the day, BC succeeded in making sure they were the only representative of the P5 in New England. Bob Ryan had a column back in 2002 in which he discussed conversations with high placed sources at BC which stated they were highly concerned that UConn was going to overtake them and that BC needed to remain king of the hill in NE. The last almost 20 years have been nothing but the result of the concerns Ryan highlighted in that column. For the rest of the ACC, they could accept Pittsburgh as well as UConn. It just didn't matter enough to them. It only mattered to BC. [/QUOTE]