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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 293281, member: 628"] The "BC blocked UConn" meme is downright hysterical. I'm actually one of the few folks here who's vaguely sympathetic towards UConn, because I live in CT and know a lot of great fans of their programs. But we're supposed to believe that the North Carolina Mafia, who supposedly runs the ACC with an uncompromising iron fist, let the newbie liberal Yankees from Boston tell them who to invite to their club? Come the hell on. I have no doubt that UConn was seriously discussed, but Pitt was a much safer choice on many fronts. As to Rutgers, I mean since 2003 the ACC has expanded by 5 teams, the Big Ten by 1, and the Big XII lost 4 and added 2. Yet there has not been one credible, sourced report that RU was ever a serious candidate for any of those openings. They're an hour south of a huge city that doesn't give a rat's patootie about college sports, that's what they got going for them. Hooray. [/QUOTE]