I don't think Villanova was wrong to want others' financial assistance in the move, either, and while that sounds ridiculous, this is a school who saw how its colleagues behaved in the face of realignment. To assume that much risk working with others who had zero issue lying to others' faces isn't that ridiculous when you really think about it.

There's no good or easy answer to it. And you can (maybe) say the same about the lawsuit against the departing Big East members, especially from UConn's perspective when it accounted for revenues from games with Miami, VT, and BC lost.

You nailed it with the issues Villanova has with its infrastructure and Radnor Township. It's not easy for them to be who they are athletically in that zip code. The Pavilion upgrade is a $60m project, and it doesn't really add capacity, only heightening game experience; Radnor would never budge on the kind of zoning to make the place bigger. Demolishing the old place and building a bigger structure might have been cheaper...but that's not Radnor.