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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 626560, member: 405"]
Here's what you don't seem to understand about UConn and Rutgers.  They were never relevant until 10 years ago. These are still fledgling programs that are weak and vulnerable.  In the Big East, they could compete, and were in the process of making a name for themselves.  Their success directly impacts our success.  
 
Go back more than 10 years ago, and you will see a run of excellent football from Syracuse going back from 1986 to 2001.  Rutgers sucked and UConn was division 1A.  Our decline allowed them to establish themselves as programs.  Before that, they didn't exist on the national scene.  The Big East gave them a foothold.  The Big East did the same thing for Virginia Tech, back in 90s, allowing them to become a national program.  We helped make them as a program.  We don't want to repeat that mistake.
 
Now that Rutgers is off to the Big 10, they are going to compete with Northwestern for last place every year.  Eventually their recruiting is going to decline again, after they have about 5 to 10 last place finishes in a row, and several years without going to a bowl game.  (We've been there recently and it ain't fun.)

As others have noted in this thread, we are getting absolutely nobody out of NJ right now.  Go back to the 80s and 90s, and that used to be one of our major recruiting grounds.  Same thing with CT - we got Freeney, Joe Morris (IIRC) and several other players out of there, because UConn essentially didn't exist.
 
Now, let's see UConn fall back into the toilet of irrelevance.  Our recruiting will improve in the Tri-State area.  It's going to take 5-10 years of those other 2 programs regressing to the norm.  We want UConn and Rutgers to fail.  Neither has any significant "history" to their programs.  We want them to die.  We *legitimize* them as opponents by scheduling them.  We want them to turn into second rate programs that elite recruits would never consider.
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