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Message: [QUOTE="Billy Jack, post: 4658525, member: 4173"] Something no one has mentioned is that a school takes a hit to its home attendance when it’s opponents are so far away because opponents aren’t traveling to games at our place. Just the opposite in the Big East where opponents’ fans do travel to our games and buy tickets. It’s not just fans who travel from the opponent’s town but the fact that we have alums of other BE schools who live and work in CT, and we have local parents who’ve sent their kids to other BE schools and come to our games. State universities not named Michigan, or Berkeley, or North Carolina, and a few others draw the vast majority of their students from their home state unlike private colleges (BE) which draw their students from hither and yon. I have never met or worked anyone from any Big XII schools, but I have met and/or worked with folks from other BE schools - including the Midwest members. The Big Ten is different. They have lots of alums in this part of the country. So, when people talk about what we do or don’t have in common with Big 12 schools, that’s the biggest one fir me. We don’t really know them, none of them live here, and they won’t be attending any of our games. I do think that accepting an offer if it comes is inevitable, but I won’t be happy about it. However, I don’t think it’s likely. Yormak is doing his due diligence, but it’s more likely that he picks off teams from the PAC 12. [/QUOTE]