whaler11
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I'm not sure what the point is of people like RS9999X commenting on the financial value of one of the new teams is. They are already added. Their financial viability is what it is. What we are discussing here is the product. Get back on topic, please.
1) As far as the product is concerned, the product will NOT be inferior to the C-7.
2) UConn will still likely schedule many of our former colleagues of the C-7 on our schedule anyways.
This is how it is, and this is how it has to be in the near future. YOU CANNOT ABANDON FOOTBALL!!!! Any fan of this board who believes that the university can improve its athletic standing in the absence of football hasn't been awake during the last decade of conference expansion. Wake up...
How do you know the C7 basketball product won't be better? You don't even know who is in the league - but if they add Butler, Xavier and Creighton without doing the math they would be higher in the computers this season.
For example DePaul is brutal. In the pomeroys they are 40 slots ahead of SMU, 50 ahead of ECU, 60 ahead of Houston. The only C7 team worse than Tulane, Central Florida, and USF is DePaul.
So in 2013 60% of the NNNBE would rank behind 6 of the C7.
They are talking about Creighton (13), VCU (12), Butler (33), St Louis (62) and Xavier (80). We are talking about UMass (139) and Tulsa (178).
Seems pretty obvious to me that their basketball product is going to be light years ahead to start, they might get a nice payday and they don't have any distraction from football.
Sure that doesn't fit the narrative that the C7 sucks - but when has the narrative around here matched reality anyway?