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Message: [QUOTE="Vuce, post: 5348854, member: 89"] I'm just a guy on a message board in the Conf Realignment Forum which no one but us sickos read so any excoriating of their decisions carry no weight whatsoever. All I'm saying is that it's a move that will make no difference and result in less fans for them and more apathy (which is hard to imagine given where they were). I had season tickets to both UMass and UConn hoops during the 90's and it was pretty awesome to have programs of that caliber so close. There was some recent buzz around the program with Frank Martin and a few home games drew more than 6K - recruiting even picked up for them but they were not able to push that to postseason success. Basketball is officially dead and buried now in the MAC and they have definitely lost the high profile sport they were known for if they are widely known for any athletics. Football there has been the worst in the country over the last decade plus. Maybe eventually they will have a middling season or two but no one will really care - it'll be a novelty. [/QUOTE]