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[QUOTE="NKR1978, post: 41923, member: 186"]
My understanding was that the conference went to 8/8 so that it could be dissolved and split into two viable conferences after five years without penalty so that each would retain automatic bids into the NCAA tournaments. We've gone past those five years, so can't the football schools just all vote to leave the conference? They would then lose the "Big East" brand (but honestly, there's nothing "Big" about a conference with Georgetown and Villanova as its anchors) but they would also save all of us $5,000,000.

All the football schools could join CUSA, Mountain West or whatever. They'd land somewhere crappy, but anything that would hurt the bball schools that lived off being able to tell recruits and fans that Syracuse, Pitt, UConn, Louisville and WVU would come to town every two years is deserving. Let them go it alone and see how well they do.

There's a good chance these assumptions are completely wrong though because I'm trying to remember newspaper articles from 8  years ago. It would be nice if the football schools were able to screw the CYO league out of $40,000,000 along with their NCAA credits. It would also be great for SU.
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