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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 3195924, member: 3630"] Some people here are acting as if the administrators at Uconn are all dumb! No one woke up. 8-hours ago and said: 'what a beautiful day, I think we should go to the NBE and 'kill' FB. I don't think that is how things are done. Many were involved, reports were commissioned, and it was clear for more than a decade that w/out a P5 invite the school had to go in another direction. I have yet to hear from the pro FB people a reasonable argument about how we can get good enough to be a good program beyond: we were once winning, been to a Bowl, etc. Some say, go out and hire a name coach, do this, do that ... Personally, I am of the opinion that you would have to hire someone who is willing to cheat (many of them out there) and the Univ. looking sideways (many do), lower the standards-- all of which this Univ., alum and State are against. My guess is that a school like BC survives bec of ACC money. I doubt that they are losing bec of bad coaching-- the NE talent is not there. And many of the other private universities are too big and poweful for us to look into their bookkeeping and hidden alum. to expose ontowards conducts. I hope Uconn can hold onto FB at some acceptable level, but it is clear that the Univ feels more at home with the univ in the NBE than those of the AAC.That means something. At some point American universities will have to unload these revenue programs and get out of the sport-business world. The only reason for not paying athletes above the table is that it will remove the last standing fig leaf and the financial ruin of many so-called universities. (I won't name any here.) Congrats Uconn. A major decision for a public univ. willing to say enough to this madness. [/QUOTE]

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