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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1625114, member: 1145"]
AS I wasn't in the BE in any way, shape, or form , the BE problems did not work in any way for me. I am a UNC grad, and I always hated the BE - people who have known me as a poster back to the start of this century will know that I always said that because the BE become a 2-headed monster, it would die, and also that I cheered for the coming death of the BE.

The BE problem, the one it could never get past, was that it was founded exclusively as a basketball league. Of the 7 charter members, only Cuse and BC played 1A football. The 9th member, Pitt, also played 1A football, meaning that only 1/3rd of the BE in its classic golden age, before BE football, played 1A football. And that meant that the non-1A football schools would resent BE football, as taking some of their power and media interest. And the basketball schools held the power - which is the reason the BE today is the non-1A football schools. The basketball schools power was so complete that in 1998, when Tranghese learned that Miami was petitioning the ACC, which would mean all other football programs that could do so also would jump to the ACC, he offered the ACC Miami, Cuse, BC, and Pitt (the first 4 BE members that played 1A football) for football season, as long as they would remain in BE basketball.

That's the power the non-football BE schools had: they intended to kill BE football to save BE basketball at full strength.

The ACC having Navy for football and Georgetown for basketball would be nothing like the BE mess. That would be just 2 schools in the same TV market sharing 1 revenue sports slot. And the reason to have them would be to replace Maryland fully.
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