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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2380240, member: 488"] Only on the boneyard is it a foregone conclusion that the P5 will branch off and kill march madness as we know it, yet football itself is in no real danger because people from the south like it. I'm not even dismissing the possibility, I'm more baffled by how definitive people are when they talk about it. This is the only place where I have even heard this stuff and it has been going on for five years at least with not much evidence that things are moving too quickly towards a resolution. It's one of those things that gets repeated so often that it just gets accepted as fact, and it's a convenient excuse for UConn fans to break out when it comes to assessing the status of our athletic program. I'm fine with staying in on football. We're seeing some signs of life now from the program and we're actually in a really good league overall for both football and basketball. People are uncomfortable acknowledging that what's best for the football program might not be what's best for the basketball program so they conceive these extreme end games where one can't exist without the other. But it's a small sacrifice for the basketball program to play in the AAC as opposed to the Big East, at least for now. I don't have a problem acknowledging that even as somebody who doesn't really care a ton about UConn football in the grand scheme. [/QUOTE]