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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeMuskyFish, post: 36249, member: 261"] Well, it likely won't be their choice anyway. I do think that people on the board are being a bit too harsh on them. While I am glad as anyone to be out of that mess, we are all of a sudden free to comment about how they should just give up and bury their football unis in a time capsule for aliens to find an eon from now. The football schools with an unsure future certainly aren't thinking that way. Had the Big East been aggressive and added schools like ECU and UCF, instead of DePaul and Marquette, they may have grown into strong schools by now, and allowed the Big East to aggressively go after the teams this time around that may have ensured its survival. The genie is out of the bottle, and I don't ever think we will be able to say, "it's finished," when it comes to expansion. So, what the conference does to survive now, will have a lot to do with whether it can thrive later. [/QUOTE]