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Old 04-09-2014, 10:59 AM   #3917
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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch View Post
UCONN sweeps the basketball titles. Realignment was supposed to ruin them. I remember when the Como-Sexuals left for the SEC many of them said: "KU basketball is going to die now when they're forced into the Mountain West, Mo Valley, etc etc"


Just another in their hilarious line of stupidity that emanates from that reerun fan base.
You can't really think UCONN didn't suffer a bit of a loss in realignment - when they went from being in a top 3 hoops conference to being in the AAC - can you? That league was fine this year but loses Louisville soon.

They're in a less prestigious league that is on less firm ground. Memphis, UCONN and Cincinnati is not a TERRIBLE threesome to hold up your league, but it isn't tremendous, either.

Also, pretty much all of UCONN's key contributors were juniors or seniors recruited when UCONN was part of the Big East. They haven't recruited as well over the past few years and don't have an overwhelming amount of talent coming in this year. You think maybe being in the AAC instead of the BEAST with Syracuse and St. John's and Georgetown, et al, is maybe hampering Ollie's recruiting efforts? Just a tad?

Will be interesting to see how they progress without Napier et al. Omar Calhoun is the one guy on the roster who was pretty highly regarded, but he hasn't done much yet.
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