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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4070227, member: 1023"] The thing I really don’t get is why people are so defensive of the NEWBIE. I’m a UConn fan and I don’t particularly like that they are now competing in a mediocre regional league at a huge cost to every other program and which I think will ultimately hold back basketball too. But if you think the NEWBIE is the #2 conference in the country (LOL, I guess if you don’t count the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC and PAC it might be) and you are a UConn fan why do you feel the burning need to defend the likes of Butler and Seton Hall? And people want to add St Louis or Dayton, because I guess they figure UMaine Farmington won’t upgrade. Athletic teams in conferences tend toward the mean, I think. It takes incedible effort to do what Gonzaga does when you play more than half your games against San Diego and Pacific. Same goes for Villanova when you play the likes of Providence, Seton Hall and DePaul. The NEWBIE didn’t take UConn because they needed an odd number of teams, they took UConn because the needed another team that people had heard of who they hoped might challenge Villanova in what had become a very lackluster league. I don’t like it because I think it hurt all our programs. And I think UConn doesn’t belong in the company of a bunch of regional city universities and commuter schools. [/QUOTE]