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Message: [QUOTE="Hamms30, post: 5044554, member: 7714"] Times have changed in the last decade. We just saw the new media deal isn't going to solve the budget deficit we deal with every year. If it brings more money to the conference, why would the basketball only schools complain? They don't have to do anything except keep doing the same thing they've been doing.. concentrate on basketball. "You're gonna pay me more money and I don't have to do anything?" If we could get former Big East basketball members back in Cuse, Pitt or BC and make a pitch to get someone like Duke added to the basketball side of things, why would you turn that down? Maybe our new media partners would be receptive to kicking in more funding with the addition of a slate of football games and gives those schools a path to the playoff that don't involve having to try and beat FSU, Clemson, Michigan or Alabama every year. Have the discussion and see what their appetite is. If the numbers don't work, then they don't work and you bury the idea. Right now, football being independent is a drag on the AD so it seems we're constantly looking for that escape hatch. The Big East doesn't want UConn to leave. We've got the hot hand and the other schools seem to be trending in the right direction, but right now we're the bell cow. I don't think anybody in UConn wants UConn to leave Big East basketball either. So how does the conference end the constant discussion of UConn leaving at the first jump. If that happens, what happens to the conferences new media deal? Do they cut funding if UConn is gone? What we've repeatedly seen since 2013 is that, we're not invited to the party.. yet this board is constantly looking in the mailbox for the invitation. Maybe it's time we start looking into what it takes to throw our own party and pull a Jerry Maguire. If you haven't guessed, this is my elaborately planned scheme to get Clemson and FSU into the Big East. Eat your heart out Yormark. [/QUOTE]

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