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Message: [QUOTE="SaltineWarrior, post: 211157, member: 925"] 1. Unbalanced schedule in basketball. 2. Allowing Notre Dame in without bringing along football. 3. No respect for traditional rivalry games & times. We used to play football against Pitt in late October and WVU in late November. Now we have what, Cincinnati? UConn? WVU early in the season? Every year the lineup for the entire league changes in an attempt at attract enough of a TV crowd. 4. Same thing in basketball. Say what you want about the ACC, but they know the regular season in basketball should end for UNC and Duke by playing each other. SU should play Georgetown on the final weekend. Period. 5. DePaul, Marquette and USF. While there are nice stories with each program, the fact is they are not what created the Big East. The Big East was a conference born out of eastern basketball. Deviating from that, it lost its soul. Take on TCU (before losing them), showed desperation. UCF, SMU & Houston looked even more desperate. Then it got ridiculous with Boise State and SDSU. 6. Navy is maybe the one logical thing the Big East has done in a while. Some outside of the box thinking with Navy and even Army could have possibly helped to save this league by creating a natural eastern football union with the Big East. (To be fair on this point, anything short of making the right decision around Penn State at the right time made unifying all of the eastern football teams pretty tough) 7. Philadelphia football: How ironic the league was able to have the Owl football team join the league in such a short time yet they were booted years ago. Classic. That and Villanova's inability to emerge from 1-AA to 1-A. 8. Related to the above point, Villanova's push to keep Temple out of the league for so many years. Instead of imagining how great a local rivalry could be to the league, Villanova saw Temple as a recruiting threat. Ask the ACC about the Durham/Chapel Hill/Raleigh area or the Pac 12 about the Los Angeles recruiting battles. Imagine, we had Temple in football only without the best team on that campus: John Chaney's basketball team! 9. Providence and the basketball-onlies. The tail was wagging the dog here. Fine, now you have a nice little basketball league that can rival the A-10. 10. Memphis. Really? [/QUOTE]

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