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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1097362, member: 27"] It certainly wasn't a brilliant move. Rutgers and UConn both were also approached with this deal and turned it down. We were the only ones to take it and when we did, it was at the least a controversial move. The truth is that it was a money grab, a way of ensuring some solid revenue at a time when the football program had become so damaged by the GRob hire that it looked like it might not produce any decent revenue for many years. Given the dismal state of finances for the athletic department at the time, the poor attendance, the awful performance on the field, etc., it was an understandable decision by Gross. But I agree with your basic point. Given where things stood then, with SU still dangling in the wind, no ACC membership yet in hand, I would have probably done the same thing Dr Gross did. We needed cash and did what had to be done to get it. [/QUOTE]