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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 454508, member: 780"]
When I first read this post, I didn't understand a word of it. But after re-reading it, I think its pure genius. It's really about the vacuum that's been created by the death of the Big East as we knew it.
 
First, the Catholic 7 split killed the Big East. I have never thought that was Swofford's strategy --- as some of the paranoid WVU fans and others thought. But, regardless, this kills the Big East. It's dead. The ACC may be now unchallenged as a basketball conference in the East and South.
 
Could The Catholic 7 plus Xavier and St Louis and whoever give the ACC or the Big Ten some competition for basketball? Sure But it's not going to be anywhere near as strong as the Big East with SU and Pitt and WVU and UL have been.
 
The death of the Big East --- or the radical shrinking of it --- creates a vacuum in the east. Who rushes in to take it? Of those TV viewers who would have watched the Big East basketball or football on a Saturday ... Now many now watch either the ACC or the Big Ten?
 
I'd say SU, Pitt, and ND give the edge to the ACC in basketball. Football, I'm not sure. I don't think the Big East football audience was all that big.
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