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Message: [QUOTE="Sea Goat, post: 5034710, member: 3716"] How quickly we forget the packed Rent for BE FB games in the mid 2000's! It was working! We packed the Rent and it had a great atmosphere, including tailgating! The Pasqualoni hire and the first screw job on conference realignment in 2011 is what started FB down the toilet. There is simply no denying that hurt us the most. Before that time, we were dominating Syracuse (won 6 in a row from 2005-2011) and on a par with Pitt. (I have written ad nauseam about the reasons we were screwed, so I won't rehash the same here.) Then, once the first conference screw job occurred, we started to repeatedly shoot ourselves in the foot FB-wise. The question is - can we get it back? I say "yes", but only in a better conference setting. To do so, we need to monetize March Madness as I have suggested. If MM becomes controlled by an organization akin to CFP (and why not?), UConn will be an important player. It may actually have the gravitas as a BB program to drag FB along with it to a suitable conference. But change has to occur regarding MM. The NCAA makes over $1b each year from MM and the payouts to the schools suck in comparison. Why does this matter? First of all, for all our greatness, our athletic dept needed a university subsidy of $38m+ to pay for operations. The single biggest reason for this is being in an inferior conference. The BE paid UConn about $6.5m in 2023 (about same as Creighton - let that sink in!) For comparison, Big 10's Northwestern, hardly a big earner, received somewhere between $50-60m - more than all 11 Big East members received in distribution combined! This is not sustainable! The push to get into a better conference, with football, should be the A-number 1 goal. [/QUOTE]

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