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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4298764, member: 1145"]
The Big East is not dead. It is alive and well doing what it was founded to do and be: basketball. The BE was created exclusively for basketball. There was no intent to ever do anything else. The BE was forced to create a football league because when PSU joined the BT, BC, Pitt, and Syracuse all realized that their football teams required something more than just BE basketball. The BE, as the non-football Catholic schools saw it, was blackmailed into creating a football division.

Nobody with a brain thought BE football was ever stable. First, for it to get any TV deal required Miami, and Miami had made it clear to everyone that it wanted to be in the ACC with FSU. Second, both VT and WVU, which has the largest average attendances of the 8 BE football embers, had both wanted very badly to be in the ACC since it was founded. The BE also made certain that BE football was permanently unstable by having members that not allowed in BE basketball.
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