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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4687166, member: 44"] Wow, a lot to unwrap here. You know, there actually is a pretty good argument that does say every conference except for the Big Ten in the SEC are failures, but some are bigger failures than others. The big 12 position itself to potentially be one of the the top three conferences in the country. The ACC bought it self survival through 2036. The PAC 10 is struggling for survival, but at least it had a run among the power conferences. The AAC did none of those things. What could Aresco have done? Well the first thing would've been to keep the Big East brand. That was probably the biggest asset he had. The second thing might have been to have some kind of sensible expansion plan. It was his shotgun approach to expansion that led to the C7 leaving the conference. Finally, as noted above, with the benefit of hindsight, I suppose he could've bifurcated our media contract into a football side and a basketball side in an attempt to get full value for what was still a pretty good basketball conference. That, too, could've kept the C7 in play. Finally, he could have not thrown the University of Connecticut under the bus at every opportunity. He never looked after our unique interests as probably his biggest sprint. He could have maintained our rights to resell our tier 3 properties. That might've kept Connecticut in the conference. The University of Connecticut "divested" itself from football? When exactly did that happen? We had three bad coaching hires in a row, which hurt us badly, but the university never stopped investing in football and the fact this day we have facilities that would be comfortably in the middle of the P5. Finally the University wordmark is UConn not Ucon. [/QUOTE]

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