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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 456789, member: 628"] It's not a lie, it's about how one defines "viable". The remains of the Big East are a bunch of Division 1, all-sports playing schools who have competed successfully at the D-1 level for a number of years. Are they anywhere close to the quality of the 5 major conferences? Hells no. But they are viable in the sense that presumably they will field competitive teams, and will many years put their champ into the BCS as the Group of Five representative. And they'll probably put as many, or more, hoops teams into the NCAA tourney as the new Catholic league. Not stable, not premiere... but viable. [/QUOTE]