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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 284288, member: 780"] I think just about everyone has been and continues to be way too hard on Big East management. Given the cards that had been dealt to them at almost every step since the late 1990's --- when Swofford started to hatch his scheme --- the Big East management has done a reasonable job. This business about allowing PSU to slip in to the Big 10 is only for those who weren't around when that happened and don't know or remember what the environment was. Bending over for Joe Pa's All-Sports Conference wasn't going to happen. The great failure was to not do what Swofford and the ACC did before Swofford and the ACC did it. And selling that to the Big East and its many different member Presidents would have been a Herculean task. BC left after Fr. Leahy said that BC was not interested in a 16 team hybrid conference. He looks pretty smart in hindsight. [/QUOTE]