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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2037295, member: 37"] Was surprised Rothstein brought it up. I expected the myopic in this forum to miss the B!G picture. But Rothstein knows what's at stake. He must be fishing for hits. The NBE is not interested in taking any university that has a football program. The Catholic schools voted to separate from the OBE (other than Georgetown). They were fearful back then that a football school could be poached by the P5 and did not want to go through another unstable period. The recent Big12 search for teams, even though they didn't pull the trigger this round, would only reinforce this fear. But from an academic point of view I'm with you and A10. Realignment is not out of the question. UConn needs to be strong if it goes another round. Separating the two major sports into two conferences weakens UConn. As an aside: I think chances are pretty good that the P5 as currently configured will not survive. There is a good chance that a four conference structure will develop with a decent number of current P5 teams not included and some outside the P5 taken in. [/QUOTE]