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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 281993, member: 780"]
Bob, can you back this up with some concrete examples of how the basketball schools prevented the football schools from doing anything?
 
Your complaint is frequently voiced on here, but I have never understood it. It seems to me to lack foundation. There seems to be this belief out there that somehow the basketball schools stood in the way of the football schools. Doing what? How? When?
 
As far as I can tell the basketball schools and the conference acceded to every demand the football schools --- led by SU --- made. The conference added football school after football school. Nobody blocked anything.
 
If anything, the football schools benefited from the Big East brand that the basketball schools helped create... not vice versa.
 
Is the idea that freed from the basketball schools the Big East would have been free to do something different? What would that have been? Cockeyed schemes like inviting Maryland? Or Penn State? or the rest of the impractical and unlikely schemes we have seen recommended on this and other forums?
 
As far as I can tell, a conference with all the football schools would have been worse on the basketball side therefore making it less attractive to new members.
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