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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 281884, member: 837"]
I'll take a look at it from another perspective -- Is it possible that Marinatto and Tranghese did a pretty good job overall?
 
I mean, once the decision is made on Penn State, this conference's football fate was more or less sealed. They made a pretty nice play to add Va Tech when they did as well as lure Miami in for a bit to add some serious credibility to the football conference. But they were left with an unbalanced league in a world that was quickly becoming dominated by football. So they get raided by the ACC, which one could argue was unavoidable since they had a much better geographical footprint for two of the schools and an a$$load more coin to offer. But even then the replacements were pretty decent (l'ville/usf/cincy) and UConn and RU made good strides as well.
 
And they did all this while maintaining a basketball conference that is truly remarkable -- the equivalent of SEC football.
 
At the end of the day they were undone by two things they couldn't really control:
 
1) the shifting trend towards football as a huge cash cow (potentially) while being a conference in an area that simply isn't that football crazy.
 
and
 
2) no one cares about uconn/ru/su/pitt football. They simply don't.
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