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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 53712, member: 338"]
My only significant memory of the BE football conference was when it was forming, as a way for us to play Miami every year.  When I was a senior at Fredonia in '89, a Miami fan there and I were talking about how SU was about to play Miami (I think we had a series before the conference formed, maybe?), and he didn't take SU seriously.  I thought it would be great to get a shot at them.

When the FSU/Miami lottery turned out the way it did (with where they ended up), I was excited to be able to see us play Miami every year.  Pitt, BC, WV, no biggie because we were playing them already.  Everyone else was an afterthought.  Things only got worse from the inception, and after Miami, BC, and VT departed, bleh.

If the BE football conference were a person, he would have been a rich heir from a dysfunctional family.  First he fought with his uncle Joe, who stood to control most of the family's fortune and had the best business sense of the lot, so he eventually got cut out of that opportunity.  And while he did inherit a goodly sum, he blew it on a poorly-thought-out startup without a solid business plan.  The money never quite ran out, but as it dwindled, all the good engineers were picked off by competitors one by one.  In the end he settled down in a double-wide somewhere in Piscataway and lived out his life in obscurity as The Emperor of the Estates, Whom Everyone Really Loved All Along.
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