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Message: [QUOTE="44PRIDE, post: 53479, member: 77"] Sure, I can see that. Outside of blackmail, what would motivate them to break away before 2013? By holding the BE together, they are at least guaranteed the revenue from basketball through the end of that contract. And that's HUGE for the DePaul's, Marquettes and Seton Hall's of the world. There is a great line from [B][URL='http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ericcrawford/2011/09/18/conference-expansion-now-what-for-louisville-big-east/']THIS ARTICLE[/URL][/B]: [COLOR=#000000]"The Big East Football Conference" is actually a separate non-profit (501c3) entity from the basketball schools, just for the purposes of revenue sharing."[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]