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[QUOTE="TexanMark, post: 2087293, member: 35"]
[URL='http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20130102/Sports/301020310']Danforth an Orange man at heart[/URL]

A few things:

He had a connection to Southern Mississippi (which is close to NOLA.  Tulane joined the Metro in 1975 as a charter member...Tulane was in a better spot as opposed to Indy Syracuse trying to play in the monstrosity called the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_College_Athletic_Conference']ECAC.[/URL]

From Wikipedia:  The [B]Metro Conference[/B] was founded in 1975 with institutions that were located in urban metropolitan areas. The charter members were the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cincinnati']University of Cincinnati[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology']Georgia Institute of Technology[/URL], the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Louisville']University of Louisville[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Memphis']Memphis State University[/URL] (now the [B]University of Memphis[/B]), [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University']Saint Louis University[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_University']Tulane University[/URL]. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_University']Florida State University[/URL] joined in 1976.

I can't imagine they paid Roy Danforth much more than $40-50k back in 1975-6.  His son Mike, was on the Cuse team but was never going to play much.

[URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/MDanforth.htm']Mike Danforth[/URL]

I just think Roy felt the ceiling was higher in the Metro with Tulane.  Never heard anything that he was unhappy at Syracuse
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