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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2654941, member: 1526"] You can refuse to believe it, but the truth is nobody will ever know for sure since Suzy and Warde sat on a beach while attending a largely meaningless early season BB tourney "monitoring the situation" (Warde's words). It may be true that the two of them could have jumped through flaming hoops and it still would have gone down the way it did, but they didn't even put up any fight. With what was riding on the outcome of that fateful decision, I would have assembled a room full of marketing gurus and bombarded every damn ACC president with brochures, metrics, marketing surveys, anything at our disposal to promote the school in a professional way. I would have button holed every damn ACC prez I had any prior relationship with and try to develop some allies. It was generally known the NC schools and perhaps UVA were on our side vs. Loserville. If we could have turned a few of the football schools I think we could have developed a consensus that might have overcome the objections of BS College. The Beagles were considered a marginal outlier by the other schools. Besides that, how much respect should they have been afforded if their pitch was that their whole AD would crater because they couldn't compete against UCONN head-to-head in NE? It ended up happening to them anyway with us in a totally different conference. It was a monumental turning point in our history. If we lost out to the Loserville slime machine, fine, then at least you went down fighting. We didn't even put up any fight. The end result now may very well be irreversible. [/QUOTE]

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