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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 786055, member: 780"]
Why "should" this have happened?

I guess it "should" have happen if the goal was to keep a Northeast Conference. But few had that as a goal. Everyone who was asked by the ACC or the B1G to abandon a Northeast conference accepted the invitation. So there apparently wasn't all that much interest even among the Northeast schools themselves in having this Northeast Conference.

Alsac's recommendation above calls for Miami to join a conference in which their closest school is Temple. I know that they have a huge NE alumni contingent ... but I don't think that would fly for practical reasons. And furthermore he is suggesting a never-been-done-before alliance between Conferences.

It's all a valiant --- and not uncreative --- attempt to cobble together a N.E conference that has too few schools, too few "marquis" schools and not enough fan interest.

It was just never going to work unless these other conferences stood completely still and never expanded.
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