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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2741027, member: 1414"]
Anything we say will be a guess. Here are mine.

1) Yes to both.  We have a long term commitment right up until we don't.  They know we will leave if we can, but we know we might not be able to, so want to make the league as strong as we can.

2)  No idea.  Benedict.  Edsall.

3)  It wasn't originally, since we were in an FBS league.  It was aimed toward the fact that the schools we wanted to emulate all have D1/FBS football (Michigan, UVA and Penn State were named I believe).  Now?  I am sure it is viewed as an essential factor in gaining any P5 invite.

4)  You will see mixed opinions here.  My guess is that if the door to a P5 invite closed, permanently and forever, we'd consider dropping football.  I also don't think we'd consider independence in football and say Big East basketball, unless the income disparity and impact on basketball was much larger than it is now.  It's possible the next AAC contract could pay more than the Big East.  Also, with WSU joining the American, apart from Villanova, the difference in the leagues is not all that really.
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