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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 2513279, member: 5037"] I’m starting to not follow you. It seems like this all comes down to you wanting to be in the New Big East for basketball. And to that end, you’ll take the concession of downgrading football to the MAC. How exactly is playing and losing to Nova, Georgetown, and Providence (while making NBE money on FS1) “1.7 billion times” better than the current situation of losing to WSU, SMU, and Cincinnati? All you do from that comment on is make the MAC concession sound less awful than we may think. But why exactly are we making this concession? What is the problem for which this set of moves is apparently a solution (never specified this in the OP)? Are we just in the NBE forever? What happens if/when the ACC or B1G eventually want us (will they ever if we do this?)? If this were to happen tomorrow, how does suddenly being in the NBE help our long-term outlook? We aren’t in “this situation” because of “sitting and waiting”. You’re smarter than that. We are in this situation because of bad coaching hires and extensions; and because of factors beyond our control. Returning to winning tradition is the best move that is under our control. Moving to the NBE will not accelerate that; and the football program will at best improve marginally and stagnate. We will be “sitting and waiting” in the MAC playing Del Val and Stevenson as opposed to pretending we can hang with real P5 programs from time to time. If you’re really looking at upward mobility, this is the worst thing we can do. [/QUOTE]

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