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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 14120, member: 652"] I agree with your point about Seton Hall and Providence however there is no chance either would get kicked out so that is why I focused on Marquette and DePaul. The freakin' headquarter of the BMW is Providence, RI. All of the commissioners of this bloated confederation have been PC alums there is no chance they or Seton Hall original members could be booted out. However, if the BMW was forced to add scraps from the B12 like KU,K-State, and we could wish Missouri then it would be good if a few basketball onlies like DePaul and Marquette could be booted so we didn't have a 20 team conference. I agree with the Kaiser give a me a watered down ACC over this Frankenstein we are in now. I understand the loyalty of some of the SU administration but the future of college sports is not with the St. John's, Villanova's, Georgetown's and especially the Providence College's and Seton Hall's of the world we need to break off and have stability. If the Big East broke their would be ample opportunities to play the teams in the non-conference or have a holiday tournament in MSG. The future of college sports is being driven by college football and some of the basketball onlies are kind of like welfare recipients. Even the bottom teams in football are contributing IMMENSELY more than the top basketball onlie. Think about the money say Cincinnati is spending competing in college football they are taking on a burden which they decided to do on their own to allow the other teams in the conference to have stability. All 8(next year 9) Why are Providence College or Seton Hall protected now in the Big East when a team like Xavier is having to bust their guts to financially compete with the big boys in college basketball. I get the Big East was founded by 8 schools, but was Pre- [U]Oklahoma BOR v. NCAA[/U]-1984 when the NCAA controlled the media TV rights of the college football teams. If Syracuse wants to have big time football it has to get over it fear of the status quo with the basketball onlies. I realize they helped build up our basketball program, but football drives the bus nationality and if we want to be like Gonzaga/Xavier and want to be a basketball school fine, but if we want to be a consistently decent football school we need stability. If that makes me a Big East Tea Party Member fine SMALLER CONFERENCE DAMN IT. I want this conference reduced like those people want a smaller federal government. [/QUOTE]

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