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That is not anyone's position here.
90% of this board recognizes that the School Administration is probably doing everything they can to improve the school's profile.
90% of this board also recognizes that the ONLY way into a P-5 conference is with football.
Given those two near-certainties, the position of 90% of this board is use the exit fees and Tournament shares we currently possess while the school makes itself more attractive for a P-5 invitation than it was in 2012.
Your position is to throw away that life raft, while pursuing a nominal increase in TV money, which potentially (probably) won't be there for the much referred to conference in 5 years .
Unfortunately, Nelson is right. And for some reason 90% of this board thinks that having 1 of 3 landing spots implode and waiting 5 - 10 years to get our football program in order somehow helps us. We're currently in 5th place and dropping fast but adding another 5-10 schools to the free market and one less league helps us? 90% of this board somehow thinks we are going to elevate from the AAC and $2M / year to the B1G at $40M / year just because our profile is improved. In reality our profile is declining in the college sports world...We've got about 2-3 years max before the state pulls the plug or Malloy is driven from the governor's mansion with pitchforks and torches and our football program going undefeated in the AAC for the next 2-3 years won't mean squat to anyone including the B1G and our own fan base!