(06-01-2020 09:17 AM)HartfordHusky Wrote:  

(06-01-2020 08:06 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(06-01-2020 07:20 AM)GTFletch Wrote:  Pretty Good report about UCONN & why they are not in a Power 5 (ACC... talks about the 2003 lawsuit agaisnt BC) also they talk about the 40Miliion in red.... ..

UConn fans who have always insisted that those 2003 lawsuits vs Miami and then BC have nothing to do with no ACC invite have IMO always been fooling themselves. Memories in academia are very long and can become institutionalized even after the particular personalities involved leave the scene.

Heck, this article from 2010, written from the BC point of view and shortly before the major realignment that destroyed the Big East, talks about the "bad blood" between BC and UConn stemming from the suits being very evident on the BC side seven years after those lawsuits were filed. It talks about how despite many efforts over those years (2003 - 2010) by UConn to bury the hatchet, BC was continuing to freeze out UConn:

https://www.bcinterruption.com/2010/5/1/...uits-could

The article is also a good read because it was prescient: It talks about how, because of the bad blood, UConn football could be severely hurt should the B1G poach Rutgers, Syracuse and Pitt, thereby destroying Big East football, as the ACC would be the only good landing spot for UConn and that would likely be precluded. At the time, it was the B1G that was in expansion mode not the ACC, but the ACC and B1G poaching that came within a year or two certainly produced the outcome the writer speculated about, and he obviously was pretty accurate in his speculations about which schools might get invites elsewhere.

I'm not going to argue that the lawsuit helped anything in the long run however, I think UConn not being in the P5 has much more to do with the fact that we didn't even start playing at the FBS level until 2000. There are no P5 members that joined the FBS ranks that recently and it wouldn't surprise me if there never are.

Blumenthal thought he could cow the League with very invasive depositions of the ACC Staff in Greensboro. VERY INVASIVE. That might work in NYC or Philly, but the game is not played that way in NC. Litigation is no big deal, but certain questions in a deposition are a declaration of war.