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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2954599, member: 5832"] Like I said, I'm kind of in the boat that it's not viable - especially considering that the program is losing money in this conference already. But I mean UCF is basically gone - that's the way i'm acting right now. It's not 'if', it's 'when' and 'when' is super soon. The only real question is what conference they end up in. And that is a massive blow to the football brand. And you can bet that with no UCF, Cincinnati and Memphis will be out of here like gun shots. Houston, too. That's why I just can't buy into the future of the conference. Who's coaching who and who's making recruiting inroads and tbh - even the TV deal. It's all totally a moot point. This is a refugee camp. It's not a conference. That TV money won't mean much when we're having expansion talks about whether we should add Southern Miss or Rice in two years. I don't know how we build a brand or something interesting around a conference like that. Even if we stay - I'm not sure it's going to happen. So your choice is to either get super creative and try to use whatever leverage we have left and make a move to be out ahead of things for a change - or you accept the reality that spending the money the college has spent/spends on D1 football isn't worth it anymore. To me - both roads kinda lead to the Big East while this conference is falling apart regardless of what *we decide to do with our own programs*. This fan base has GOT to look outside itself for a change. [/QUOTE]

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