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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5173643, member: 1023"]
I think this is partly correct.  The missing piece is that we would have had to invest in football like Houston and Cincinnati and SMU and even Tulane have done.  Instead we nickeled and dimed it with Pasqualoni, who was washed up by the time we hired him, Diaco, then Edsall 2.0 who was shocked by the mess Diaco left then pretty much quiet quit when the move to independence was announced.  Had we hired Mora (or more realistically a Mora type who knew what he was doing) instead of Edsall or Diaco we would be in the B12 .  Staying in the AAC without taking football seriously would have been a disaster of the first order.

For what it’s worth, I think David Benedict got that message when he talked with the B12 and the ACC.  If you listen to him now, at every opportunity he says football is important to our athletic future.  He didn’t say that early in his tenure.  The Mora hire was the first indication he was serious.  I’ve heard him speak at multiple Alumni events recently. The message has changed.
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