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Well ... let us debunk you and this.
We are not going to beat out Alabama or Michigan or Oklahoma or Clemson ... or about 10 others. CFB has stratified into a definite hierarchy. Gosh we can't keep Harbaugh out of New England - he just brought in 5 kids from here. Our basketball success is extraordinary; but we need to keep vigilant to push the success of both programs as best we can. In Football, even more so than 2004, I believe we need to grind towards regularly being in the top 40. Even if we do get some new configuration of the Power 5, we need to be the best we can. That will not be top 10. We simply have significant impediments to climbing there once ... let alone often. We ARE better positioned, in general, for longterm success than our regional peers of BC, Syracuse, Rutgers, Temple, Buffalo, UMass, Army, Navy, Maryland ... if the Power 5 cartel just fractures a little. But there was a Wall built up in the last decade that we are not going to climb over.
What about the UDub Huskies?
In my view, their solid tradition (Don James) allows both those Dogs and Oregon Ducks to create a structure that dominates the West. For a period. Both UCLA and USC also can get into the Four playoff slots. Maybe Stanford. That is different than the SEC or B1G or Texas/OK. And I don't think an undefeated Houston (or USF or UCF or SMU) ever breaks into the Four. As a UConn Football fan, we can hope for slight bowl openings that are better for the AAC and some fissure of the fault lines in the ACC or B12. Then we can rise to near the top 15 ... maybe. This is a harder sport to get there than hoop.
