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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 3599436, member: 2531"] I respectfully disagree. The BE didn’t fail because of the hybrid model. It failed because it was a basketball conference, and the money shifted to football. The conference was a waiting room for Tech and Miami, who both always wanted an ACC invite, and there aren’t/weren’t enough marketable teams once they left to keep the conference attractive vis-a-vis the other power conferences. The ACC is stronger with ND. The B1G is (marginally) stronger with JHU (lax - their only DI sport) and U of Chicago in the CIC, the BIG EAST is stronger with UConn, and so on. Hybrids can work. Bad luck and a lack of vision doesn’t. [/QUOTE]