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Message: [QUOTE="ConnHuskBask, post: 2265240, member: 632"] Adding Tulane, Tulsa and East Carolina to the league was extremely short sighted. I'd much rather be a 9 team football league and 9 team hoop league (Navy football, Wichita State hoops) than ever have to play Tulane, Tulsa or ECU in anything. The finances for the league needing a title game never made sense when you look at the take home per team with 12 teams and then look at what it would be with 9 teams and not a title game. I've said it here before that Aresco gets a free pass and I'm not sure what he could be different now but his salary is damn near more than we get for our AD as a whole from TV. Unacceptable. Agree with Whaler regarding the hoops schedule too. UConn should never, ever have to double up in basketball with the dregs like ECU, Tulane etc. at the expense of a SMU like what happened this season. The idea is to maximize TV matchups and you purposely eliminate a game that's been featured on CBS, ESPN for one that is lucky to be on CBS Sports Network 9pm on a Sunday night? The TV deal needs to be on ESPN at at least twice the money and UConn needs tier 3 back at minimum to buy us until the next round of CR, which I hope happens in my lifetime. ( I believe they already have the women's tier 3 back at $1M a year). [/QUOTE]