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stllvf said:
I prefer to hear the players answer the question implied in this thread. "we can only play LV basketball we can not worry about any team other than the one we are playing next."

Connecticut will be a great team every year - the only way they could be hurt would be their very weak conference and how that may impact recruiting. But with Geno the Olympic coach and ESPN down the street - they will continue to rule the mountain. The LVs can get to top again but I don't think it will be at the expense of UConn. But so can South and North Carolina with their talent.

lets focus on the game with Maryland, if you want to talk about climbing step by step
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It's no coincidence that both of UConn's bball programs began their ascension at roughly the same time. ESPN was giving them exposure before they had earned it but there is nothing that ESPN can do to force feed a school with such a small football program into either the ACC or Big Ten. Just like Louisiana Tech women's bball and UNLV men's bball the UConn programs will sink to the level of their peers. (just as La Tech did without Barmore and Vegas did without Tarkanian)...The rest of the top 20 programs in the country could really move this along by following Tennessee's lead and refusing to play them. If UConn can't get games with Notre Dame, Stanford or Louisville in the future what would ESPN do? Show UConn vs Memphis or Tulane? I don't think so.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
It's no coincidence that both of UConn's bball programs began their ascension at roughly the same time. ESPN was giving them exposure before they had earned it but there is nothing that ESPN can do to force feed a school with such a small football program into either the ACC or Big Ten. Just like Louisiana Tech women's bball and UNLV men's bball the UConn programs will sink to the level of their peers. (just as La Tech did without Barmore and Vegas did without Tarkanian)...The rest of the top 20 programs in the country could really move this along by following Tennessee's lead and refusing to play them. If UConn can't get games with Notre Dame, Stanford or Louisville in the future what would ESPN do? Show UConn vs Memphis or Tulane? I don't think so.
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Perhaps uconn will pull the other AAC teams up to their level. The Big East was a terrible conference when it started but quickly improved when uconn joined.

Uconn has no power over ESPN. ESPN is a business and they go where the money is. If Stanford etc. refuses to play uconn, Stanford will just get less national TV exposure. When TN stopped playing uconn, it wasn't uconn that got hurt, it was Tennessee that lost national exposure.

You do realize your suggestion of boycotting uconn is a cowardly thing to do. Can't beat them fairly, so stop playing them. The Summitt way, I suppose.
 
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Convoluted said:
Perhaps uconn will pull the other AAC teams up to their level. The Big East was a terrible conference when it started but quickly improved when uconn joined.

Uconn has no power over ESPN. ESPN is a business and they go where the money is. If Stanford etc. refuses to play uconn, Stanford will just get less national TV exposure. When TN stopped playing uconn, it wasn't uconn that got hurt, it was Tennessee that lost national exposure.

You do realize your suggestion of boycotting uconn is a cowardly thing to do. Can't beat them fairly, so stop playing them. The Summitt way, I suppose.[/QUOTE]

And you realize that at the time the decision to cancel the series was made that Tennessee had just beaten UConn on the road in 2007 and won the national championship? No quality program in any major sport in the SEC (including softball) needs to worry about national exposure especially with the SEC Network set to launch. Recent history has shown that sustained excellence in any major sport requires being in a major conference. UConn is at a crossroads...I don't expect to see an AAC Network any time soon.
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BowlBrother85 said:
And you realize that at the time the decision to cancel the series was made that Tennessee had just beaten UConn on the road in 2007 and won the national championship?
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When the series was cancelled, the handwriting was on the wall. Maya Moore picked uconn and Pat knew the end was in sight. What happens in the future is anyone's guess.
 
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Convoluted said:
When the series was cancelled, the handwriting was on the wall. Maya Moore picked uconn and Pat knew the end was in sight. What happens in the future is anyone's guess.
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That's a personal attack on Pat Summitt, and you just insulted the tactic a few posts earlier. That is such a sleazy double standard. And your opinion is unsubstantiated unless Summitt actually believed Maya Moore was going to be granted...what....eternal eligibility at the school???
 
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UConn will face the same fate as La Tech and ODU if they don't get into one of the big 5. Like La Tech and ODU it won't happen over night. It is a sentence enacted with greater force year after year. They know this or their administration (along with Cincy) wouldn't have practically been on their knees begging Swofford to let them in.

I actually think they will eventually be in the ACC. The question is what will the ACC look like at that time. That likely depends on the viability of an ACC network that espn "promised" after Notre Dame joined and the Maryland lawsuit against the acc. If the network never happens and Maryland wins that suit it's gonna be like rats scurrying off the titanic. Uconn will only truly be safe in the big ten. The Maryland suit is quite interesting if you are into the politics of realignment. Subpoenas being issued to espn and acc schools by Maryland. The acc refusing to settle to avoid any dirty laundry because their survival demands it.
 
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Convoluted said:
When the series was cancelled, the handwriting was on the wall. Maya Moore picked uconn and Pat knew the end was in sight. What happens in the future is anyone's guess.
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Conjecture and BS, as you know. I will admit that Moore was a good purchase for uconn.
 
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