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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3584342, member: 1023"] There is and has for many years been a group of basketball boosters and a group of, let’s call them middle managers, in the UConn athletic Department who oppose anything that they think might take away from the basketball program in any way. They actively opposed the football upgrade, and when HEA reaches out to UConn when Vermont joined and when Notre Dame joined they lobbied against it both times. Another time in the early 2000s they did the same. The idea was to keep the hockey program at essentially a 1aa level so “we” (ie basketball) never have to worry that someone will take the limelight or maybe more importantly, any resources, from basketball. Hence, the need for Malloy to make the call and inform the University it would be going to Hockey East. If it had passed through “normal” channels it would have been doa. [/QUOTE]