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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 2629620, member: 1559"] Disagree on the finances. Basketball revenues are driven by attendance, donations, and NCAA credits. UConn basketball can hold it's own on attendance and donations and hopefully, the AAC can become a better basketball conference and generate NCAA credits. Schools like UConn will spend on basketball because they can make money in basketball and it helps subsidize the athletic department. The real issue for non-P5 schools is the non-revenue sports. Can you continue to spend on non-revenue sports to remain competitive with the P5 in those sports? Another point on P5 schools in an era of conference realignment. When conferences get bigger, there are winners and losers within that conference. Pitt basketball is a case in point. They went from a top tier Big East team to a mid tier ACC team to a bottom feeder ACC team. Climbing out of that hole will not be easy. Who does Pitt have advantages over in the ACC? Certainly not Duke, UNC, Louisville, Syracuse, UVA, NC St., ... The upside for Pitt looks to be a mid tier ACC program. Sure, they could find a great coach, but I would argue that maintaining a high level of performance would be difficult. [/QUOTE]