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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2578460, member: 5832"] This has been bandied about so many times. This is a basketball school. Football was upgraded as something nice to do. Then it became the life boat. And it was a crappy life boat. Now it's turned into the actual ankle weight. It's not saving us or giving us a chance for anything. Now it's an actual deterrent. It was an unnecessary investment when it was started whose best shot was dependent on a lot of things going JUST RIGHT to keep it moving in the right direction. Then when they didn't, they never ever had a shot to get back on track. None. And here we are with all this state money spent on whatever it is you want to call the football program. And *100% because* we have a football team, we're in the American Athletic Conference. That's indisputable. And fans aren't interested in the teams we play (and they shouldn't, why would they?) in any of the sports we play them in. So that's effected attendance everywhere else in the AD - especially in your flagship sport. Yes, Ollie stinks - and that was a dumb call (extending him) in hindsight. But take that bad decision, multiply it with other bad decisions... along with the biggest and worst bad decision - and here's what happens. And frankly, football's not going P5. Neither is hoops. The Big East is a revenue bump. Whatever happens with football happens. The only shot they have to save their gravy train is to move it and let football do what it's going to. Was worth a shot, it just isn't anymore. [/QUOTE]

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