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(02-25-2012 12:35 AM)panite Wrote: They don't have to buy their way out of the A-10 early. They can wait on that one and enter early for FB only and pay the minimum departure fee to get out of the A-10 later with proper notice. The BE needs a FB team asap not a BB team and Olympic sports teams. If the MAC makes it too expensive to get out the BE will wait for Temple and seek out 6 OOC games even if it means scheduling 2 D1AA teams like FSU did when WV dumped them.
The best thing the MAC can do is to let Temple go for 2.5 - 4 million, schedule with in themselves to makeup a couple of games from Temple's MAC opponents, and make up the difference in games with BE opponents that need games in 2012. If the MAC makes it too expensive and plays hardball rather than reaching a mutually agreeable settlement, Temple will wait the year to cut the exit fee and leave for 2013.
No Thanks, Temple has a 2 season AND 2.5MM exit fee. Let Temple stay 2 years if thats what the MAC office thinks is best for the MAC. We should not be considering the BE and TU at all. Again, Temple and the Big East have the scheduling problem, NOT the MAC. Our schedules are set.
And ENOUGH with the thinking that the Big East could some how "compensate" us with scheduling us. They already do and again, THEY have the scheduling problem, NOT the MAC. They should be pleading with us to schedule them, not the otherway around. The Big East is coming to at least 3 MAC stadiums that I can think of off the top of my head right now this season. They need us way more then we need them.
MAC needs to stand firm, BE and TU are in a position of weakness on this and we owe neither any favors.
Pay the MAC what they demand to let the Big East have TU early (all cash, no scheduling agreements)
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Default on the contract and roll the dice in litigation.
Those are the ONLY two options for the Big East, its absurd that they think they have any negotiation leverage.