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[ZooCougar]

I don't think this is worth having a big argument because its not going to happen anyways.

I will just say this: where you plant your flag has meaning, it shows what you think is important. Secondly, the Big East is not some start up where the employees meet on Skype three times a week over Starbucks and a Breakfast Burrito.

It's acceptable for the A-10 to be in some backwater, not the Big East. In a major city like NYC, you are in the mix. You can have serious meetings, face to face regularly with all of the players...

I trust Aresco. But I really hope that the days of the football media days and lobster boil in Rhode Island are over. We need media days in Philadelphia, Dallas, Orlando, NYC, etc... Not in some place where college football doesn't matter. It's time get out of the shell.

 

[huskymedic]

I don't think this is worth having a big argument because its not going to happen anyways.

I will just say this: where you plant your flag has meaning, it shows what you think is important. Secondly, the Big East is not some start up where the employees meet on Skype three times a week over Starbucks and a Breakfast Burrito.

It's acceptable for the A-10 to be in some backwater, not the Big East. In a major city like NYC, you are in the mix. You can have serious meetings, face to face regularly with all of the players...

I trust Aresco. But I really hope that the days of the football media days and lobster boil in Rhode Island are over. We need media days in Philadelphia, Dallas, Orlando, NYC, etc... Not in some place where college football doesn't matter. It's time get out of the shell.

But I did get a kick out of you comparing the demographics of Birmingham and Silicon Valley.

 

[ZooCougar]

It's important to the business and media community. Not so much in Providence. How many direct flights go into Providence?

 

[huskymedic]

More than you think (none from Germany) but a decent amount from Big East footprint w/ exception of San Diego and Utah. There is a direct flight to LaGuardia though and Logan is a hour North. TF Green is a decent airport - less hassles than Logan or NYC

 

[ZooCougar]

Direct flights to Chicago, LA, Tampa, Dallas, Philly, Milwaukee, and Memphis?

 

[huskymedic]

Direct flights to Chicago, LA, Tampa, Dallas, Philly, Milwaukee, and Memphis?

http://www.pvdairport.com/main.aspx?guid=879AA2CC-8C87-4B00-AA4E-26C273208AA9

 

[ZooCougar]

NYC has three close airports with direct flights to all of those places and more.

 

[Marty Jackson]

Do you want go to a lobster dinner in Providence with only sports based media there or a 5 star steak dinner in Manhattan with the New York based media as well there as a recruit?

Walk the red carpet in Manhattan or go to a country club in Providence?

It's all about selling to recruits, and even selling yourselves to the locals. If you make yourself out to be a big deal in a sport fueled by perception, you will become a big deal.

How many recruits are going to the BE offices? Didnt even know this was at all common.

 

[BlueDogs]

I feel like I'm eavesdropping on a conversation between the Captain and Firstmate of the Titanic. Move those chairs over there. I think our fleeing passengers will appreciate the arrangement...glub, glub, glub.