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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4678150, member: 1414"]
I get all this, but I don't think the math works that way. You could do this with Houston, Cinci, BYU and UCF and you couldn't make the math work.  The real question is: can this school, if added to a P5 conference, step up and become a more reliable draw on TV.  For basketball, UConn is there.  Football, based on name recognition from basketball, maybe?  I think they see the huge alumni base at UCF and are gambling that they can step up.  Cinci football is very good, and Ohio loves football.  Houston is a huge school like UCF, and has some history of success in both sports.  BYU has it's own built in fan base nationally, and history on the football side (and some history at basketball).

For example, you simply can't project UMass making that leap.  Temple has shown it can't do it.  UConn was given a shot and briefly did it.  Pac is looking at SMU because they were bigtime in football, it's a rich school with good academics, and even basketball was good at one time. So they project as possibly making the leap.
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