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So you were serious when you proposed we fold the football program?There is a large contingent on this board that thinks making less money with ESPN is better than more money with Fox.
As for the Gopher expansion theory, UConn would either need the Big 10 would need to add 1 team only, which seems unlikely, or at least 2, and who would the second team be? Missouri is the only school that is AAU, adjacent to Big 10, credible as an addition, and not covered by a GOR.
If we were to leave for the Big East, UMass would slip into our spot in this conference before you can blink an eye.
The FB product has been terrible, but ALL the games are on TV. Yesterday during a college whip around they had the screen split into four squares with upcoming games on the ESPN networks between the Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, and the American's game between Tulsa and USF. I know exposure doesn't pay the bills, but I think Aresco has delivered on the exposure front. We will see if the money gets better. Our football program in any other G5 league or as an independent is toast.
The Big East is a better basketball league, than the American. Is it so much better that is worth flushing down the hundreds of millions invested in football down the toilet? That is where I differ from you, the extra two to three million a isn't worth submarining the FB program for, and I just don't see a scenario where going to the Big East doesn't do that to the FB program.