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Message: [QUOTE="dayooper, post: 1385929, member: 3859"] Called up to where? Your plan is to take football down to nothing and hope for a Big East invite? You think a conference of religious private schools is going to invite a large public scientific research school? They may, but it's as big of a stretch as building up the entire university go P5 standards, trying to earn an invite. Yet, what's the purpose of trying to get into P5 conference? What's the purpose of any university spending money on big time athletics? It advertising. It's trying to get a broader area to attract high level students from. Schools are so competitive right now, they need any advantage to get them to enroll. Right now, football is they way the big, public universities are getting them in. Alabama's ranking has risen the past few years as more and higher quality students from out of state have enrolled. Why? They never thought about Alabama until they were winning on tv. Rutgers has seen a spike in students from the Big10 region since their invite was announced. Good students that raise the standards. Right now, football is the advertisement. You are correct, companies do desperate and creative things do survive. The issue, many times they don't work. They just fail faster, especially when the plan is reactionary and isn't particularly thought out very well. I have yet to see how your plan is well thought out. [/QUOTE]