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Message: [QUOTE="itgoeslike, post: 1217011, member: 3691"] I appreciate the desire to have UConn join the New Big East, but the writer is either 12 years old or clueless. Actually, I'm being unfair to twelve year olds. The following is just some of the inaccuracies. - UConn didn't leave the Big East and did not join a new conference. - UConn's Field Hockey doesn't travel to Dallas to play SMU, they are members of the NBE! - UConn's reported football attendance was not 24,000, it was slightly over 27,000. - None of these universities, aside from Georgetown, are national universities. USNWR doesn't even categorize these universities with UConn. - SMU is ranked in the top 25. - The NBE is having a better year this year, and may indeed be a better conference top to bottom, but they performed worse than the American last year, even when you back out Louisville. - When you divide $500M by 12 years and 10 teams you get $4.1M. He can't even do basic math. - The ACC contract is about $2.2M ($1.9M [ESPN] & .3M [CBS]. Also, the ACC (if it stays intact) is 3 years away from negotiating an increase. The NBE will be making the same draw a decade from now. - He avoids the advantage of the AAC's guaranteed national TV exposure and ratings delta. Has anyone watched Seton Hall play this year? I haven't, but I've been force fed a bunch of UCF, Tulane and ECU. - Who has watched a MAC football game on TV this year? Not many. - He doesn't bother to mention the exit money and NCAA tourney payout. - I could go on. . . It's nice to feel wanted, but the guy is an idiot (or at the very least not qualified to writing on this topic). [/QUOTE]

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