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Message: [QUOTE="ec33, post: 4709508, member: 12850"] This is actually might be good news for UConn. The conceived plan as reported to us (from various sources and from the general gist) was either Colorado and UConn or (preferably) Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, and UConn. The one possible stopping point was Colorado and Arizona, but Arizona State and the rest hold with the Pac-8 leaving no UConn (for the moment). UConn is step one of the BY plan to incorporate Eastern basketball. As UConn is the only Big East team with football, it needs to be brought in with an odd pairing. The second part (or third if the ACC blows apart) of the plan is to incorporate St. Johns and Villanova as non-football members (and with the 3 teams or more travel costs can be somewhat contained for the non-football members in the nonrevenue sport schedules). But without UConn you lose the biggest brand to go with the larger markets and you lose some of the appeal for the Catholics to leave. [/QUOTE]