(08-05-2017 05:23 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  If the decision was made to move up, then that decision was in the school's best interest, by definition. Otherwise the move would not have been made.

You can only hold this position if you believe:

1) athletic decision makers are saints, and in no way self interested.

or

2) athletic decision makers are omniscient, and know what the end results of the transition will be.

I don't believe either of those things to be true. I don't think they're evil, or stupid. But they aren't any more or less of these things than the general population. Which means that sometimes they make self interested decisions, and sometimes things don't work out like they planned.