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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2316079, member: 628"]
True, that's how it played out given the realities in the fall of 2012, where UConn was quickly failing  in football and Lousiville was emerging to be a top 25 program.

I'm just suggesting that in an alternate universe where UConn hired a much better replacement for Edsall after their Fiesta Bowl appearance in 2010, and UConn had become a top 15-25 program, taking advantage of being in a weak Big East, that the end result might have been different.

I mean, maybe not, I totally concede that.  But in the fall of 2012 Louisville was just starting their turnaround under Strong after having been lousy for several years post-Petrino.  And they did not offer as attractive academics (which college Presidents do care about superficially) or market (Hartford/New Haven offers more cable homes than Louisville plus Fairfield County which is in the New York market).

Look, the ACC probably still would've gone with Louisville.  But UConn made their decision easy because they let their football program slink right back to being lousy after Edsall's departure.  They had a slim chance and hiring P torpedoed that.
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