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Message: [QUOTE="The Yakk, post: 4177634, member: 9988"] I'll bite, I'm not afraid of trolls. Yes, OF COURSE we would accept an invite to the ACC. Maybe it wouldn't be quite as good for our basketball program as the Big East, but the benefits to our football program would be too big to ignore. But contrary to Syracuse's experience, I would expect sustainable success for UConn in the ACC. We are much closer to those schools, both geographically and structurally as a flagship state school. We are already the second favorite team of most UNC fans. Unlike Syracuse, the ACC schools would actually care about playing us. And you know what? UConn joining the ACC would IMPROVE SYRACUSE's POSITION! You would no longer be a forgotten outpost up on the tundra; you would actually have opposing fans in the conference that care about playing you. Your recruiting would improve immediately. Probably not enough to save your school in the long run, though. Syracuse as a college is at the beginning of a very long death spiral--a victim of college cost inflation. As time goes on, very few people will see the value of paying 3x the tuition to get an inferior education at a mid-tier private school. [/QUOTE]