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Message: [QUOTE="FearThePups, post: 4691899, member: 12856"] Hey guys, new to the forum. My opinion is that it would be foolish to leave the Big East for the Big12. So many of you have already mentioned the multiple downsides. Travel, lack of natural rivals, and being stuck in a league with teams we have no allegiance to. But there is really farorw upside in staying put until some other solution comes along. Didn’t we live in basketball limbo for how many years in the AAC, winning one title but really becoming irrelevant as recruiting was woeful, our fan base wasn’t engaged and the games were not nationally televised. NOW, we are returning to our roots, we’re a legacy franchise in the Big East again, St. John’s is upgrading with Pitino, our league is seeing a resurgence in street credibility potentially having the most teams in the NCAA tourney next year. Forget getting top talent to come here if we move to the boondocks. Star recruits want to play in MSG, Philly, Storrs. We have a reputation as a premier league. So should we listen to the outcry to grab the millions and leave the league we left a decade ago only to come back in the 3rd year and hoist a national title banner? Screw the money. Our football team will never be anything but fodder for a real division 1 league. Good luck getting kicked every Saturday. All I have to point to is the Game last year with Michigan. 60 something to 7? So entertaining. What an embarrassment. Where does our up and coming hockey go? To the Big12? Do they even play hockey there? While the Big East is never in its current state going to have competitive football, perhaps what makes more sense is to meet with the ACC schools that have storied basketball teams, that also play decent division 1 football, invite other schools like Syracuse and form a new ACC league. Moving to the BIG12 would not guarantee us a full member yearly share of the revenue and we would pay huge exit fees from the Big East. As they say, be careful what you wish for. [/QUOTE]

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