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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 2897620, member: 44"]
I tend not to feed trolls but I will give you the benefit of doubt for now.  The hope, of course, is that we will have improved our football fortunes by then.  Remember UConn, under current head coach Randy Edsall, won two Big East football championships and went to the Fiesta Bowl.  As Jim Calhoun would say "It's doable."

Also keep in mind that what a P5 conference wants in an new member is a moving target, sometimes it is football prowess, sometimes it's geography, sometimes it's demographics, but having a BCS football program is always required since the P5 refers to the top 5 BCS football conferences.  All we can do is keep our profile as desirable as possible and hope for the best.

As I have noted previously, the P5 is where the money is.  Eventually their financial firepower will crowd out other programs.  We paid $3M for Hurley because that is where the P5 set the market price for him.  Sitting on the outside looking in will eventually mean second class coaches and facilities as we won't have the money to keep up.  So if you are a fan of any UConn athletic program, you should be rooting for football to succeed, because a football is the key to athletic department success whether you like it or not.
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