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Message: [QUOTE="Stern, post: 202492, member: 527"] That's where you lose people with your stance. The Conference HASN'T done what it needed to do. The just brought in anyone and everyone with no rhyme or reason. And a decent TV contract means nothing when it comes to perception, on the field play, or the national landscape giving s#it about any of these teams. It will take an act of god for that conference to succeed, not a decent TV contract. The Big East is the land of misfit toys, it has no chance of being successful on any level football wise. None! Zero! Zilch! And these new bottom feeders (SMU, UCF, Houston) will drag down the quality basketball schools left behind (UCONN, G'Town, Nova.) SMU and Houston are the bottom, dead last 2 teams in CUSA this year for hoops. How the hell are they going to survive in the Big East? Not only has the Big East destroyed their football side with west coast teams and just bad additions that bring nothing to the table, in the process they have killed their basketball side as well. Good luck to UCONN, G'Town, Nova now trying to recruit Top flight basketball players when you show those kids the schedule and they are playing. A top kid being recruited by lets say UCONN and Pitt. Hmm, I could go to Pitt and play Duke, UNC, Syracuse, Virginia, NC State..etc and be on ESPN a ton of times. or I could go to UCONN and my first 5 games are SMU, Rutgers, UCF, Houston, and DePaul. Playing in empty stadiums in games that "might" make ESPN3 on the web if you are lucky!! They have destroyed the basketball side by bringing in so many bottom feeders! So the criticism of the Big East and what they have done is very valid on many levels. What they did was horrible and will fail, there is little doubt about that. What they "could" have done and taking another approach would have been much much better for all parties involved. [/QUOTE]

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