SpiderMan79x
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RE: Would Memphis join the Big East if offered?
(12-30-2021 10:47 AM)tcountytigerfan Wrote: Athletic department is primarily funded by conference money, donations and ticket sales. Eliminate/reduce football and you take away essentially all the conference money and an awful lot of donations and ticket money. Simple as that.
Basketball has operated in the black during good years with high donations and ticket sales, and in the red in the bad years.
What I mean by small liberal arts school - think of those tiny schools that are decent in basketball. 1) they generally have no or very scaled down football operations 2) they are wealthy schools that can afford funding a good basketball program via donations and their school endowment.
Not to mention they aren’t paying rent for their stadium - we rent both.
That’s not us. We have to have football on a large scale. We could write pages and pages on why - if you guys don’t understand this, then you just don’t understand. Can’t help ya. Maybe think why is there a G5 at all? Why does MTSU, who has 0 chance at a P5, still field an expensive football team.
If you don't get in the P5, then there will not be any option for "large scale" football. ESPN is not going to write huge checks to a irrelevant conference who is basically D2. Once the P5 dust settles there won't be big payouts anywhere except those conferences because no one will care about D2. You are basing your comments on a conference model/contract scenario the would be extinct under a P5 break-away league/division eventuality.
I would actually love to hear the pages and pages of the "why", but I'm weird I guess. I'm genuinely interested in understanding why football is so important for a D2 league.
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Would Memphis join the Big East if offered?
