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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 5139026, member: 504"] The lack of a conference doesn’t help. Football and men’s hoops have a problem that I think only getting into a P4 conference solves. We can get into any conference that'UMass can get into, which might help football but is a non starter for hoops. Hoops fits anywhere but football doesn’t. So BE hoops is fine for hoops. Football has always been the key. I don’t count women’s hoops (which I follow) because since the old BE, they haven’t been in a conference that gets them any real league competition anyway so it hardly matters what conference they are in, and they will never be the reason why we get a P4 invite. ETA And is obviously why we will be a feeder football school and get portal guys many of whom are trying to see the field where they haven’t at P4. I’ve been impressed by some of the portal guys who have seen us as a step up in both sides of the ball. [/QUOTE]