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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 867430, member: 1969"]
Its not a bad year to leave the Big East though in terms of competition.  If the league had stayed intact it would be struggling this year.   Who would be the elite competition?    Louisville (without Behanan)?   Nova who I am still a bit skeptical about as an elite team.
 
Certainly not UConn, Georgetown, Marquette who have all had much better years.   Those programs are the level of a Clemson or a Florida St. this year.     I will miss the matchups no doubt, and would rather play those teams than Clemson, but they are not really any better.   
 
For the first year we get Duke and UNC which easily offsets the less intriguing matchups.    In year 2 we get Louisville back.    By year 3 or year 4, hopefully there will be some new pests in the middle of the ACC pack that will have a program rebirth and we will start to enjoy playing as fans.
 
And throughout this move over the next 5 years, our OOC will be more interesting than the past as I know we will play some of our old rivals fairly regularly.   Just look at this year - we played St. Johns and Villanova.    This could have been two modest opponents instead based on how we scheduled in the past (given that we had already played an elite tournament and were playing Indiana)
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