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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2959555, member: 1001"] This is the only sane way to look at things. It's pretty cut and dried. We're pot-committed to football until the next major round of CR; there's no way in hell we're doing anything with the football program until that happens. We need to get football to not be a complete dumpster fire; clearly P5 conferences don't care all that much about how good you are since the B1G took Rutgers and the ACC wanted us before Pitt before we got cockblocked by BC. Now, if CR comes and we get passed over in favor of schools that we felt were unquestionably inferior to us, then [I]maybe [/I]it's time to start looking at a move regarding football but in all liklihood I don't see anything happening even then. I think we're in the AAC until it we get a P5 invite or the American falls apart. That's the big question in all of this: what happens if the American falls apart and we have to go Independent in football, or if the top teams get poached (Memphis, Cinncy, UCF, etc) and we get left at the altar again? That may finally force our hand to make an extreme decision. At that point, it's clearly not meant to be with football. There's no point in going to the Big East any time soon; it's Villanova (who had their moment in the sun and will likely come back down to earth the next several years) and a bunch of mid-majors. Providence and Georgetown and Butler and Xavier? It's not like we'd be going to back the original Big East. It wouldn't surprise me if in five years the top of the AAC is better than the top of the Big East either. [/QUOTE]

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