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[QUOTE="All4SU, post: 992929, member: 381"]
That would have been the best way to go for all concerned.

- I have mentioned before that SU lobbied for an all sports conference in the 70s. - prior to the BE - but it needed PSU.  And they would not allow their football program to be included.  That opened the door for Gavitt.

- People always talk about how the northeast doesn't embrace college football like the south does.  I have always maintained that it's not as simple as that.  Certainly there was a time when the northeast did.  PSU, SU. Pitt, Army, Holy across, these were all big time.  And I believe that lots of factors led to CFB sliding in the NE.  Certainly, the fractured nature of these independent programs played a huge role.  But another influence was pro football which became huge at just the right time.  The northeast had big time football.  The Giants, the Pats, the redskins, the eagles, the jets...   There was no pro football in Alabama, or in Georgia, Mississippi, or South Carolina, Oklahoma, etc.  CFB got big there.  Pro football got big elsewhere.  In the NE, CFB became less popular as a result.

- none of this means that CFB cannot become big in the NE again.
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