A decent AAC contract keeps the dream alive. A terrible contract ends it. The dollars to fund football need to be there or football will either have to leave the AAC for the MAC, convince the AAC to keep our football team while the rest of the sports go to the Big East or go FCS.
Umm....why??? Isn't the BE deal almost up to? No way they get the same type of deal next go round. There's even less of it going up if they included us in the conference. In case anyone has noticed we've been awful on the court and moving to the BE won't change that.
Secondly, moving the team to the MAC does what?? Oh right, have us continue supporting the football team financially while playing in a worse conference with a tv deal that is basically non existent. There is no way they drop to FCS or go independent.
I don't understand this fan base. I really don't. The BE is in the past and probably doesn't even want us back seeing how we still have football. Our future is in the AAC for now and by the mod 2020's, who knows where many of the current college programs will be. I think many lower tier P5 programs get dropped and an elite level division forms. Or they realize that they have killed college sports by taking away regional games and interest has gone away. They respond to this by reforming regional conferences.
In the end, the BE is not a savior and won't be for our athletic program