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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 353855, member: 628"] I get the sentiment, but I hate when people make bad comparisons. Is playing BC and Maryland as good as playing UConn and Rutgers in football? Because that's the geographic trade we're making. We're also trading Louisville, Cincy and South Florida, for Clemson, NC State and Florida State. Similar geography, much more attractive opponents. For hoops would you trade Pitt and Notre Dame for Villanova and Providence? Again, that's the geographic equivalent. We're also trading Marquette and DePaul for, say, Virginia and Georgia Tech. Geographically it seems like a wash to me. Big East football was never a wholly northeastern league. From the start it was in West Virginia, Virginia and Florida. And the hoops conference stopped covering the Amtrak northeast corridor map in 1991. It's been in Indiana, Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio since then. This isn't a sudden change. [/QUOTE]