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Message: [QUOTE="MooseHaas, post: 15521"] With all of the football-driven changes that are taking place in the NCAA landscape, the only way to maintain the Big East as a viable format is to kick out the basketball-onlies and expand to 14 or 16. But the BE has made it clear that's not going to happen. Therefore you have to be pro-active about securing the future and being in a position where you are in a league that allows you to compete for a NC in football. People pinning for lost rivalries are missing the point that this league in this format isn't going to exist much longer, it is going to get carved up to complete the expansions of the other conferences. The 'success and power' of Big East basketball doesn't look as impressive without UConn, Pitt, etc. I'd rather stay in the Big East too, but only if we can kick out the basketball-onlies and add on some of the bigger schools that are threatened to get lost in the conference realignment shuffle (Kansas, KSU, ISU, etc). [/QUOTE]