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Message: [QUOTE="cuse522, post: 1013820, member: 1149"] Good question - right now it's biased in your favor because you're in the Final Four. If you asked a couple of weeks ago, I would think that Florida, Michigan State, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke, UNC, Syracuse and Louisville would all get more responses. Arizona might too. I'll say that a large percentage of CBB fans would name UConn in the top 15. How's that? The vast majority, which I don't think separates you from the others in the top 15 or so. Not as many would get Ollie as you think. I'd think most would get Calhoun. But not on the same level of Coach K, Izzo, Williams, Boeheim at this point. Outside former Big East fans, not as many as you think. How many would care that they knew your women's BB coach? How many have watched more than 5 minutes of any women's game in the past 5 years? I don't know what you're looking for here. Yeah, UConn has a better hoops program than several of those schools. However, football is what really drove all of this. So why don't you run through all of your questions and make them football versions and answer them. Also, if your gripe is over being left out vs. Rutgers and BC, okay, you've got a gripe. But it was all about money, television and football. Also, when BC got in the ACC, things were very different. If your gripe is over Wake Forest and NC State, then your gripe is really with the way the Big East was run vs. the ACC. If the ACC collapsed instead, those would be the types of programs that might be in trouble finding a new home too. Right now as a Syracuse fan I'd kick BC out and take UConn from a fan perspective. I have no love lost for UConn, but I enjoy hating UConn and playing you guys in basketball. However, if you tasked me with running the conference in the best interest of the ACC, I'd keep BC for the Boston television market. Ironically, UConn probably would have been better off from a hoops perspective without football, because you might have managed to get into the Catholic version of the Big East since you wouldn't have had one foot out the door for greener pastures that may or may not ever come. [/QUOTE]

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