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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5334076, member: 488"] While I largely agree, one thing that gets lost in these discussions is that different conferences assign different values to different schools. There's no standardized rate to guide our outlook for the future, meaning you never know when the Big Ten might pull a Rutgers out of its hat and shock everyone. (Years later, it's hard to say it hasn't paid dividends for the Big Ten even if RU's play has left something to be desired.) In a vacuum, I think UConn's one of, if not the most valuable commodities in the G6. While it might be a bit ambitious to think that the Big Ten would add us now, I still think it's a conceivable long-term goal provided a bunch of things go right in the meantime. Conversely, I'm pretty sure the Big Ten would bristle at the prospect of adding a Memphis or Louisville. Unfortunately for us, the Big 12 appears to be the only realistic suitor in the event that a power league decides to add from the G6 - and we don't fit. At all. It's like deciding whether to court the really attractive woman that kind of likes you but clearly isn't attainable or the mildly attractive woman that might be gettable if she wasn't completely repelled by you. You're probably going home with zero women. [/QUOTE]