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Message: [QUOTE="dogged1, post: 3453142, member: 7301"] [/QUOTE] Football pays for everything for the Power 5 football teams schools in other sports! So how are these other sports considered Power 5 if they can't pay for themselves and never will be able to except for a few MCBB teams. No Womens team will. [/QUOTE] To be clear, in the first part of my post I was quoting and responding to [USER=711]@trb123[/USER]; it was his post about DT and Sue not mine. Something went wrong with my quote of trb123 and it wasn't highlighted like it normally is. So in your post to me his quote was attributed to me. My bad. In the second part of my post I quoted (properly this time) your response to trb123, about the P5. If I'm reading you right you regard the P5 designation as applying only to the football programs of those schools and nothing else. I do agree with you that football is the money maker for the P5. And that men's basketball can also be a moneymaker for any Div 1 school, P5 or not. And that outside of a dozen or so schools such as Uconn & Tenn WCBB is a money loser as are most of the other sports. If your perspective is solely as a fan of WCBB then I guess that you are correct, P5 is a meaningless term outside of football. This is after all a Uconn WCBB forum and I would have to agree that you have every right to look at it that way. But if you’re looking at what P5 schools generate in revenue, and what that revenue allows their Athletic Departments to accomplish, in terms of marketing, infrastructure, facilities and support up and down the gamut of collegiate sports then I would argue (respectfully, without heat) your perspective is too narrow. Right now the Uconn Athletic Department is hemorrhaging cash. Sooner or later the State will cut back on their support and students will protest the extra fees. And our "front porch" will need maintenance and repair and the cash won't be there, because we are not P5 and therefore don't generate P5 revenue. Our lack of P5 status will then impact every sport that Uconn has. Just my perspective, no disrespect to you. [/QUOTE]

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