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Message: [QUOTE="BUConn10, post: 2035538, member: 5075"] The big east is still a great conference, and as it stands the perception of their strength as a conference may very well indeed be greater than the numbers show, but at the end of the day the committee will more closely resemble the public perceptions opinion of what "strength" is in terms of conferences and ranking resumes. This same concept works against UConn in the rankings and tournament seeding but due to the weak perception of the American. Last year before the AAC tournament then numbers largely showed us as an at-large bid, but when the press started gearing up for the conference tournament season, the narrative shifted that UConn needed to win a game or two in the AACT just to have a shot at dancing, and I still think our seeding that year was far lower than where our resume deserved to be. As for the Big east splitting who knows, personally I think it's wishful thinking by those who are anti-NCAA, I don't think it's a realistic course of events. I think everyone who "matters" is eating plenty well right now and these things have so many moving parts. My opinion is that UConn needs D1 football to maintain that perception as a "real" athletic program, no matter how poor the current perception of the football program may be. But I will say this UConn's potential ceiling for football success while residing in the AAC is maybe a very limited due to the cultural and geographic restrictions that are just a part of college football, but our ceiling in basketball is HEAVILY capped by the AAC. We need to weigh the options and decide if a slightly greater growth potential in football in the AAC will pay off (P5) at the expense of our future potential in the sport that we know to be king here. [/QUOTE]

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