Big East Update from DePaul

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The concern over some of the other schools being farther out for competition doesn't concern Lenti-Ponsetto when discussing the travel of non-revenue sports.

"No, not at all because where we are geographically located, when we were in Conference USA, we used to go to Dallas and Houston all the time," said Lenti-Ponsettto. "Houston was actually in Conference USA with us, and we've always gone to Florida because we've always been in a league with South Florida so going to Orlando isn't any different. For us, we're going to get on a two-hour flight whether or not we have to go to Syracuse or Houston so it's really just replacing the same air travel we had with Syracuse, Pitt, and West Virginia. In the case of SMU and Houston, we did that before when we were in Conference USA."

DePaul wasn't a huge player in talks with its status as a football-less school, but to keep the Big East brand that is okay.

"We like the cache and the profile of being associated with the BCS conference. For us it's been a very good association and relationship," said Lenti-Ponsetto. "In order to continue to be aligned with a BCS conference, we had to do all that we could to support the football side of the conference so that they could continue to maintain their status as a BCS conference. I think that was the feeling and the sentiment for all of the basketball schools. Everybody mutually agreed that we've got to do what's in the best interest of football right now.

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