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Message: [QUOTE="pepband99, post: 2512932, member: 79"] And yet, you still can't offer an answer at all. Shocking. Your "breakeven" scenario of football indy and Big East basketball has its own albatross - the rights fees will drop a substantial amount for the Big East very soon. Combine an independent football schedule that includes a high number of directional schools, probably no AAC opponents (to the degree that hurts), and a sprinkling of maybe 1 good P5 game a year, and what do you get? Essentially the same expense report, but you killed any chance of your AD growing. Nice job. You're essentially betting the farm on the Big East fixing our attendance, as that's the only controllable revenue source. Given what's happening to attendance around the country, i would go against that bet, maybe even harder than the TV rights side. [/QUOTE]