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<blockquote data-quote="steeleer" data-source="post: 129569008" data-attributes="member: 1484359">I'm not confused. I just used ESPN because the ACC was brought up as another potential landing spot for what is now apparently a red hot UConn property. Athletics and demographics drive the bus for athletic conference expansion. Conferences can &quot;prefer&quot; certain academic requirements/research status, but that didn't stop the B10 from taking a Rutgers program that they knew was going to lose it's AAU status when they accepted them. As an aside,&nbsp; I will argue that while that was a good add under the conference network model now (lots of TVs in that market), they will be a bad add long term addition when once again the bus is driven by one simple criteria....&quot;Is this team any good? Am I willing to take 3 hours from my day to spend on watching them play?&quot;The B10 does have some very good programs now (Michigan, OSU and MSU) but the bottom of that conference is awful. Dreadful. Bad. I doubt they feel they are in a position to take on more dead weight that will further dilute their product and make them a poor performer when live CFB becomes more &quot;decentralized.&quot;Double that for the ACC. Who is really good there outside of Clemson and FSU? Their rep has taken enough hits with adding awful football programs like Pitt, Syracuse and BC over the past several years.Unfortunately, no one is taking UConn because now I will need to copy this post for future use to teach others how this thing works and why UConn&nbsp; is an awful choice. Or maybe I'll just let time make my argument for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeleer, post: 129569008, member: 1484359"] I'm not confused. I just used ESPN because the ACC was brought up as another potential landing spot for what is now apparently a red hot UConn property. Athletics and demographics drive the bus for athletic conference expansion. Conferences can "prefer" certain academic requirements/research status, but that didn't stop the B10 from taking a Rutgers program that they knew was going to lose it's AAU status when they accepted them. As an aside, I will argue that while that was a good add under the conference network model now (lots of TVs in that market), they will be a bad add long term addition when once again the bus is driven by one simple criteria...."Is this team any good? Am I willing to take 3 hours from my day to spend on watching them play?" The B10 does have some very good programs now (Michigan, OSU and MSU) but the bottom of that conference is awful. Dreadful. Bad. I doubt they feel they are in a position to take on more dead weight that will further dilute their product and make them a poor performer when live CFB becomes more "decentralized." Double that for the ACC. Who is really good there outside of Clemson and FSU? Their rep has taken enough hits with adding awful football programs like Pitt, Syracuse and BC over the past several years. Unfortunately, no one is taking UConn because now I will need to copy this post for future use to teach others how this thing works and why UConn is an awful choice. Or maybe I'll just let time make my argument for me. [/QUOTE]

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