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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Yes, I am aware of the economics of adding them. They may add incremental dollars. But I'm trying to understand why a football conference that only cares about football would want to dilute it's football brand by adding 2 crappy football programs. Just for money? You would agree it's a very odd strategy no?
"Basketball doesn't matter!" So why are you adding basketball schools? "Because we want to be the best in basketball, dammit!"
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It's about expanding the conference footprint for the conference network. The league doesn't need any more football heavyweights. Same reason they took Mizzou.