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I understand everybody's disappointment, but at the end of the day, we don't NEED the ACC to have a successful program.
Look at Boise State and TCU. They succeeded in non-AQ conferences. It's possible. Not probable, but possible. It can be done.
We still have one of the premiere basketball programs in the country. We still have an up and coming football program which is only growing in popularity. We still have an overall great athletic program and an increasingly impressive academic standing. And we have an extremely professional President who understands the importance of athletics in growing the University as a whole.
We can all throw a big hissy fit about BC blocking us, or being left out in the cold, or how our whole program is dead, or we can keep supporting it and keep spreading the UConn fanbase.
It ain't gonna be easy, but then again, nobody thought it'd be easy to build a national basketball powerhouse in the middle of nowhere, Connecticut. Stranger things have happened.
Look at Boise State and TCU. They succeeded in non-AQ conferences. It's possible. Not probable, but possible. It can be done.
We still have one of the premiere basketball programs in the country. We still have an up and coming football program which is only growing in popularity. We still have an overall great athletic program and an increasingly impressive academic standing. And we have an extremely professional President who understands the importance of athletics in growing the University as a whole.
We can all throw a big hissy fit about BC blocking us, or being left out in the cold, or how our whole program is dead, or we can keep supporting it and keep spreading the UConn fanbase.
It ain't gonna be easy, but then again, nobody thought it'd be easy to build a national basketball powerhouse in the middle of nowhere, Connecticut. Stranger things have happened.