Except this is not a case of small-market Milwaukee not having the resources to compete with the Yankees or Red Sox. It's the Yankees or Red Sox choosing not to compete with small-market Milwaukee.
It's not like the League has chosen to drop the AI and Princeton is sticking to it or that Harvard and Yale have chosen to change the financial aid rules in a way that Princeton (unlike some of the others) can't afford. Princeton helps set the rules.
The transfer policy is just silly and Princeton can change that whenever it wants (and has). My point is that if it's true Princeton is not giving its basketball coach the support he needs, it's a terrible decision because doing so not only doesn't cheapen the brand it enhances the brand.
Even last night during the NCAA women's basketball final, the announcers repeatedly described Notre Dame as running the Princeton offense or the Princeton system. Like it or not, on a national level it's probably one of the the top two or three things most associated with Princeton.