It will be at the short term expense of basketball. You have to assume that the Big East isn’t going anywhere.
Look, if my choice is stay as is and move everything but football to the Big XII, and from our move everything will stay the same around you, I would pass and stay. But what happens if we say no and the XII takes ‘Nova, St John’s and Georgetown instead? What if we say no and the football power conferences eventually get tired of the NCAA? I don’t want a to be in the XII for hoops, but we can’t turn it down assuming the future won’t be different than the present.
I can’t believe I’m even typing this, because there is no reason to think the Big XII or anyone else is anywhere near giving us this kind of choice.