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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 627137, member: 2531"]
1. UCONN is in the AAC. Beating them down every year isn't going to make them any more legit than Penn State stomping Temple into the ground, LSU destroying Tulane, or Tennessee crushing Memphis. UCONN also has a stadium that's under 10 years old and about 30 miles from campus. That stadium won't move for at least another 40-50 years. How high do you think that their ceiling is? VT turned into a national power by beating easy teams and by having really, really low instate tuition which allowed them to field a JV team, so they had a ton of players with experience on campus. UCONN is a very different story. They aren't in a major conference, they can't field extra teams, and their stadium is really, really lacking. If we were talking about UMASS, then you might have a point, but UCONN is very different.
2. Rutgers became relevant by scheduling Army-level teams 5X and then playing a BIG EAST schedule so they could make a bowl every year. That won't happen in a 9 game B1G season, especially 1/3 of their OOC games (that season) is against SU. RU is in a conference with Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan State. Do you really think that a game against Syracuse once every three years is going to turn them into a national power by making their schedule legitimate when it otherwise wouldn't be? Honestly...
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