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[QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 59158, member: 439"]
Regardless of the opinion on the board, many of the people to whom it really mattered thought differently.  I think that the bball only schools may have thought that the success of bball would have some kind of positive impact on how the new contract was negotiated, thus giving them a bigger chunk of the pie.  So they decided to hold out for the bigger money gambling the stability of the football side.  Think about it.  Do you think GTown, SJU, etc, thought in a million years that SU would leave the BE?  I bet they all thought that after the 2004 fiasco SU was all in, never to think about leaving again.  Well guess what?  Not even the best bball conference in the country can stand up to the rolling juggernaut of football.  If the Providence Mafia had simply understood how thin of a rope they were standing on, they would have listened to people like Daryl Gross, grabbed the dough and stabilized the core of the conference.  Instead they listened to ND and now find themselves scraping the bottom of the barrell to remain solvent.  Marinatto should have rallied the troops, taken the TV deal, grabbed KU, KSU, etc., when the Big 12 was in flux, renegotiated the contract and gone for broke.  Instead...well, we know the rest.
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