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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2609728, member: 1526"] How is the NBE the same as the old geographically? They lost WVU, Rutgers, Syracuse and Pitt, replaced by Butler, Xavier, and Creighton, the latter in freakin' Nebraska. It's somewhat better than the AAC, but not by that much. Other than Providence and St. John's, you have to get on a plane to go everywhere else. So you save on two bus rides. Big deal. The TV money really isn't all that different between the AAC and NBE. With the revenue football can generate, such as the 1.2 million dollar payday to give up the home game last saeson vs. BS College, we can easily surpass the revenue we'd make in the NBE. Also, TV dollars mean everything, and our exposure on TV is far greater in the AAC. FOX' s TV ratings for NBE basketball are abysmal. Nobody cares nationally about a bunch of small catholic schools with small alumni bases. They're losing against women's games scheduled for the same time slots in viewership. Going independent in football immediately turns us into UMASS. That's the future we'd have to look forward to...total irrelevance locally and nationally. [/QUOTE]