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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4025096, member: 44"] That sounds ideal in some ways. The problem is that a football program is expensive to maintain regardless of whether it operates on "a national scale" or not. The apparent solution then seems for most schools to cut football. The issue with that is that football is the source of the money for major conferences. The Big 10 distributes @ $55M annually to each school for media rights; the SEC @ $42M (which will soon increase) and the ACC pays each school @ $32M. (Those are from memory but the are likely no more than a few million off.) The Big East distributes @$4M per each school. That differential means that the big football schools have more spending power for coaches and facilities than non P5 schools. Eventually that will price out all sports, including woman's basketball, from being able to compete for recruits (due to facility and staff differences) and coaches. UConn is well positioned to survive this longer than most, if not all, non "national football" schools, but they will not be able to do so forever. I don't see a solution to that. [/QUOTE]