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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5072216, member: 71"] For openers, if we had received the offer from the B-12 that had been leaked I would have been fully behind making the move. If we did move, we would have joined for basketball (and other sports) for the 26-27 academic/athletic year and remained independent in football until 2031 (five years as a partial member). By all reports our exit fee from the BE would be $15 million and our revenue increase from the B-12 roughly $3 million per year. Please walk me through how there would have been any material economic gain from the move over the five year stretch. Again, I have be all for putting a far greater effort into building the football program from before we hired Jim Calhoun to run our men's basketball program. I also don't see how it would be impossible for us to build a quality program, considering some schools have somehow overcome decades of futility yet were able to find a way. [/QUOTE]