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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3423206, member: 652"] UConn got passed by Rutgers for the Big Ten for one reason $$$$. Rutgers got the BTN on cable boxes in NJ and NYC because of YES and the Yankees. UConn’s location and population of its home state is why they didn’t get selected by the Big Ten. The ACC passed because they led a lawsuit in 2003 against the conference and so in 2011 the conference chose Pitt over UConn as the second team with Syracuse because Pitt was a less hostile choice. Then the ACC chose Louisville over UConn because Clemson and Florida State didn’t want another northeast basketball first school and used their political capital and influence to get Louisville over UConn. UConn became relevant because of Calhoun. Their football program got a golden ticket to a BCS league and once the Big East got eaten up they weren’t up to sniff to become a P5 program. Now they can just wilt away like they are. [/QUOTE]