(10-04-2017 07:10 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(10-04-2017 02:16 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-04-2017 02:01 PM)DefCONNOne Wrote:  

(10-04-2017 01:51 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  

(10-04-2017 01:33 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  Blumenthal didn't make it any more personal with the ACC than Pitt did. Blumenthal made it more personal with BC by suing AD Gene DeFilippo and Father Leahy.

The reason UConn made it more personal with BC is that at a Big East meeting concerning ACC expansion candidates, Gene DeFilippo shook everyone's hand and looked them all in the eye and promised that BC was not leaving for the ACC. A few days later, they were gone.

Back then, we all didn't know that realignment was going to become such a huge thing and that former conference members shouldn't take it personally. BC leaving was at the start of modern conference realignment and UConn, in hindsight, overreacted. UConn was annoyed with BC's deceit after Connecticut just dropped $100 million on a new stadium. When those events are put in context, all of the ACC members should understand where UConn was coming from back then. It is water under the bridge. The only one who may be still mad is BC (and Gene DeFilippo is long gone). What BC doesn't get is that they would get more eyeballs and have more success if UConn was also in the ACC. Nobody will care about ACC sports anywhere in New England (not even in Boston) unless UConn is invited. The BC-UConn rivalry based on pure hatred is a thing of beauty.

UCONN and Blumenthal took a gamble and it bombed. Not blaming them for trying but many in the ACC still remember state of CT was the face of the law suit. Too many are still alive in the ACC office that remember. Swofford does not like to be challenged publically. As long as he is alive, he will influence the ACC after he retires. When he does retire, the next commissioner will likely be pro football.

Personally, my money is on this man to be Swofford's replacement when he retires.

I will continue to say this and it doesn't matter what you or JRsec (who's very wrong about the reach of 'Cuse and BC re: UCONN) think and/or say.......The 2003 lawsuit excuse died the day the ACC invited Pitt.

No amount of spin will change that fact. Deal with it.

Deal with what, exactly?

People not accepting the fact that the 2003 lawsuit excuse died the day Pitt was invited to the ACC.

I can assure you, it did not.
UConn screwed the pooch with the lawsuit and will have to live with the consequences.