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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4977220, member: 833"] I know all the "but this time it is really different" arguments. It may be different, but it is not necessarily worse. I believe you were on the Boneyard in 2003. The ACC raid of 2003 was not just a body blow, it was a punch right in our freaking face by Mike Tyson in his prime. The 5 remaining Big East football schools had not really accomplished anything, had modest fan interest compared to Miami, and the Catholic schools, which had a lot of the basketball prestige at the time, were planning to strike out on their own. There was a good chance that we were going to end up in some modified CUSA, which would have been the end of UConn athletics at that point. To go from where the Big East was in the Spring of 2003, to what would happen for UConn over the next 21 years, was nothing short of a miracle. The entire nationwide university system is about to enter the most chaotic period in its existence, and I believe that several of the universities whose teams we watch in the fall and winter may not even exist in 20 years. Even if they survive, universities will look dramatically different 20 years from now compared to how they look today. What happens to their sports team is far down the list of concerns to university administrators. It will be chaos, but chaos should not be feared, and in our case, it is actually kind of necessary. [/QUOTE]