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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4705845, member: 628"] Good piece. I disagree with Delaney on a couple points. 1) As lacking in foresight as the rejection of Penn State was by the Big East was in 1984, I think PSU still leaves for the B1G eventually. I don’t think a PSU-BE marriage would have lasted, nor would it have stemmed the movements to come. 2) The NCAA’s ludicrous rule that required two, 6-team divisions to hold a football champ game was an incredibly meaningful dynamic for expansion. Arguably every conference expansion decision in the 90s and early 2000s was heavily influenced by that. I did like his categorization of “strategic expansion” and “reactive expansion”. Generally speaking, most moves by the SEC and B1G fall into the former, and most everyone else’s fall into the latter. [/QUOTE]