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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 708254, member: 628"] This is a good piece, thanks for posting. I've long thought that the "big 5" breaking away from the NCAA was problematic largely due to potential, and almost certain, Congressional intervention. You don't think my esteemed Senator Dick Blumenthal wouldn't raise holy hell if UConn was not just left behind in the AAC, but now the AAC itself is in an explicitly minor league NCAA with no access to the newly prominent Big 5 hoops tournament? It'd be a circus. This Division 4 concept makes much sense. It's odd that little Sacred Heart University in my town has as much voting sway as Syracuse or Texas. These schools are simply operating on totally different planes of existence. Hell, the football and hoops schools of the Big East couldn't make it work ultimately, and that gap was narrower than Ohio State and, say, St. Francis. [/QUOTE]