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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 1382151, member: 2920"] Disagree. How many programs in the HE are going to have similar admissions issues in the future? Given that they are all excellent academically, but private (with much smaller AD budgets), they can't afford to miss on a kid. There will be more of these in the near future and I hope that UConn can swing in and poach them all. Whether it's because we were a prospect's top choice or we are a prospect's fall-back option because of another HE school's admissions standards, I could not care less how we got Letunov. As long as we get 'em. The ingredients of building a top program are in place and in full swing. You get top talent (like Letunov) however you can get him. When he laces 'em up for the UConn red, white, and blue, hopefully we will get to show future top recruits the brand and level of hockey we can play here. "2019 kid" sees Letunov and hopefully others playing at UConn and the NHL and thinks to himself "hmmm...UConn plays good hockey, located in the northeast and I don't have to bend over backwards to get admitted. Maybe I'll hop on the icebus." Then Boom!...it's BrassBonanza time over and over again (I don't mean you, I mean the glorious anthem played after Whaler...err...UConn goals)!!! But don't worry, if UConn takes its hockey program to the B1G with the rest of its sports then you won't have to worry about the large public vs small private admissions standards any more! Then we can all go back to loving the UConn red white and blue together and you don't have to read any more hockey links!!! :) [/QUOTE]

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