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RE: Alliance Candidates
(02-16-2012 01:50 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: What is the incentive for a non-football school to join the Alliance? Say I'm the AD from Belmont, or from George Mason or VCU or Fordham. Why would I go from a league that has an automatic bid, that's somewhat travel-friendly, where I have some conference rivalries, to the football-centric, spread-across-the-country, mediocre-basketball Alliance?
The incentive would obviously be the potential to make more money.
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Where is that money supposed to be coming from? TV revenues? George Mason would be getting 1/30 of the basketball share of a not-great TV contract. Ticket sales? ECU and Marshall aren't going to sell a lot of tickets at the PAtriot Center, never mind UAB or FIU. Tournament shares? Because I think you have a better shot at the tournament from an ordinary conference that has an auto-bid.
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