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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 2430830, member: 1969"]
I have to disagree.

Several American teams have been able to do quite well for themselves despite their fate in that conference (or a lower conference before that) - Cincinnati, SMU, Wichita St.  Houston has come back from irrelevancy to become a possible tournament team this year.  Temple and Tulsa have been able to get at larges out of the American in the past two years.

The point is simple - while not going to the P5 will hurt you, it does not crush you.  You are blaming too much of UConn's performance on re-alignment.  That is wrong - most of the blame needs to be pointed at the coaching staff which are doing an absolutely terrible job.  Going to the American should have hurt but not crushed the program.

Likewise blaming our recruiting mistakes largely on sanctions, takes away accountability.   No doubt that overall class ratings will suffer some because of the sanctions.    But there have been many serious whiffs that you can't blame the sanctions on.

All that being said, I can't fully compare the two, because now the Syracuse coaching staff have us clearly going in the right direction, and Ollie has them going straight to the crapper.
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