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Message: [QUOTE="Bearcats#1, post: 653503, member: 3783"] 100% agree here...UCONN hoops is great but vs OU football it's a no brainer. Football drives the bus and OU football is blue blood so...doesn't take much to figure that one out. If you look at ratings regular season football games far exceed regular season bball bball games. Heck even crappy lower bowls draw comparable if not better tv ratings than say duke/unc in hoops. The only thing bball has that draws huge ratings in is March Madness...and that's it. Really the lack of "getting it" concerning the importance of football vs basketball is what doomed the BE...imo anyway. Look at the last BE expansion. Cincy wasn't invited to the BE because of hoops; the BE didn't need Cincy hoops. We got in becasue of football. In our case at that time, it was the potential of football, but football none the less. UC was taken over Memphis. Why? Cincy had made a large investment to football (Varsity Village) and Memphis didn't. Look at today...why is UC spending 80 mil to upgrade and expand Nippert? Because they hope to get an invite to a P5 conference. In fact our AD Whit Babcock (came from Mizzou) was told by the B12 if we do this Nippert expansion/upgrade and keep winning in football it should "be enough" to get in. So if you have a choice of taking OU football or UCONN hoops you pick OU football 100 times out of a 100. Not a knock on UCONN...I root for you guys being in same conference and all and think you deserve a P5 invite along with UC. Just my input... [/QUOTE]

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