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Message: [QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 5107809, member: 9355"] Yeah I hate when people insinuate it's only because of the Big East UConn has been resuscitated back into a big time national program again. Did the Big East help? Absolutely, because the Big East is a big time national basketball brand and high level high school players know of the Big East. People don't remember because of the COVID lockdown season, but UConn was ascending that year. Basically, the coaching staff is like a deluxe rocket, but the Big East the is premium fuel that allowed the rocket to gain peak performance. Bringing UConn back into the Big East has been mutually beneficial for both. For UConn its because of the aforementioned reasons I stated above. For the Big East the benefit is they have one of the handful of national powerhouse programs that demands respect from the other conferences. Also, the conference benefitted in this round of TV negotiations by having UConn. Without UConn they would have gotten much less money. [/QUOTE]