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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 4668586, member: 5037"] Our Mens AND Womens basketball brands SHOULD vastly outweigh what should be reversibly bad recent football play; but we can never ever forget that most of these states and their residents culturally hate the “elitist” “yankee” northeast. That biases their acceptance of our previously-horrible-but-improving football program and should definitely be considered an extra hurdle for us. They don’t care that we were ever in the better half of the once-decent Big East (certainly better than any era of the AAC) for most of our time in the conference. It really feels like the B1G is the only conference that would accept us, but that isn’t going to happen for now. Feels like we will just have to wait and see what happens if/when the PAC and ACC dissolve. Makes one wonder what could have been had we stayed in the AAC, got Mora and improved with him; like just get to Houston’s level. Seems like there is concern that there is a low ceiling with what he can do while we are independent. I believe we don’t win #5 in the AAC, and obviously we would not be attractive in the AAC with only one non-dismal season and would have likely been passed on this expansion regardless; but it’s still something to wonder. [/QUOTE]