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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 3047648, member: 2531"]
You’re remarkably right.

AA once wrote that “nowhere did he BIG EAST’s drum beat louder, more consistently, and with more clarity than it did on the SU campus,” and she was right. Penn State may be the body of eastern athletics. The Cult is legion, and they are formidable - at least in football. But Syracuse is and always will be, for better or worse, the heart and soul of the east. We credibly carry the flame of the history of collegiate athletics in a way that no other school can.

The first Big East failed because it didn’t have the mass that only the Cult could give it.

The second iteration isn’t truly northeastern because it lacks the heart and soul that only we can give it.

***It’s worth noting that, unless I’m forgetting something, out of the schools that willingly left the BIG EAST, only SU didn’t do so under a cloud of litigation. (I’m excluding the C7 split because that was more of a conference splitting apart than a departure.)***
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