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[BlueMAB]

You mean where most of our rocket scientists live? Birmingham Hunstville has similar demographics to Silicon Valley.

Our football offices might as well be in Australia. It also sends a message as to where our priorities lie.

Non-sequitir. Huntsville is 70+/- miles away from Birmingham and rocket scientists are probably not the biggest college football fans in the world, so what your factoid has to do with why the big east should move their offices to NYC makes little sense to me.

I don't see many pundits, fans, players, coach's etc, saying the big east would have more respect in college football if it just moved the offices to NYC. A place that historically has cared less about college football as they have the broadway showing of CATS.

Who cares where the office is? Aresco could work out of his house, just get better deals done.

 

[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.

Non-sequitir. Huntsville is 70+/- miles away from Birmingham and rocket scientists are probably not the biggest college football fans in the world, so what your factoid has to do with why the big east should move their offices to NYC makes little sense to me.

I don't see many pundits, fans, players, coach's etc, saying the big east would have more respect in college football if it just moved the offices to NYC. A place that historically has cared less about college football as they have the broadway showing of CATS.

Who cares where the office is? Aresco could work out of his house, just get better deals done.

 

[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.

 

[BlueMAB]

Not in some place where college football doesn't matter.

There's the rub. It's NYC. College football doesn't really matter there either.

 

[ZooCougar]

There's the rub. It's NYC. College football doesn't really matter there either.

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.

 

[BlueMAB]

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

None, Warwick gets some but how many I'm not sure. But how exactly does saving a few journalists, ADs and suits, a couple hours on a commute improve the Big East? I'm not understanding how people will start respecting the big east as big time because some meetings we rarely hear about will be more convenient for the participants.