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[QUOTE="OrangeXtreme, post: 3246692, member: 41"]
Crouthamel tried to get PSU an invite to the Big East. Needed 6 votes, only got 5. Gtown, St Johns, and Nova voted against. 
 
Wouldn't have mattered anyways, because JoePa was only interested in starting an Eastern All-Sports Conference based on football. Even if PSU joined, it would have been temporary until he got a better deal from the B1G which included football.
 
JoePa's dream conference would have involved PSU, Pitt, WV, Syracuse, BC, Temple, Rutgers, and possibly Maryland. He had some really screwy ideas about revenue sharing (when SU sold 20,000 tickets to a basketball game, we'd have to share ticket/concession revenue with the whole conference, while PSU could sell 100,000 football tickets and keep every dime). His lopsided revenue scheme made SU and BC hesitant to leave the BE.
 
Once Pitt accepted a Big East invite in 1983 it killed JoePa's dream. He held a grudge against Pitt until the day he died. 
 
Little known fact: When the BE was originally formed in 1979, Temple and Rutgers were asked to join and they both declined because they didn't want to alienate PSU. Nova and Seton Hall ended up being the replacements.
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