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Message: [QUOTE="longtimefan, post: 213389, member: 212"] If you read the whole article, you'll notice the bit about how the basketball schools (St John's, GT and Nova mentioned) blocked the Penn State invitation. And that Tranghese basically told Gavitt at that time that the league would rue the day they made that decision. The story may well be true, as Tranghese has been telling it for years, maybe back to the 2003 raid and before. (I'm not sure it happened in 1989; wasn't it earlier?) If true, this would absolve him of some of the blame, but he certainly had it in his power after he became commissioner in '90 to take steps to insure the stability of the football league. In any case, a bastardized coalition like the Big East was doomed to failure. Some sort of a friendly split should have been negotiated 15 years ago. [/QUOTE]