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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 15840, member: 405"] You see these ACC to 16 proposals, and you want to puke. People talking about adding basketball onlies and creating another hybrid conference - don't you get it? That's why the Big East broke up. Because basketball only guys were running the league, so football and basketball could never be integrated and work together. You can't just recreate that mistake in your new conference. Whoever joins whatever new conferences take shape, and personally, I think the Big East or Big 12 might survive with different member mixes because of the value of the brand of the conference and its existing contractual ties - more contracts get renegotiated than get cancelled outright - and these teams have to land SOMEWHERE. The NCAA can't permit so many teams to be without conferences; they will all have to come back together in some, somewhat-familiar form. [/QUOTE]