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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 3600045, member: 2531"] A desire to be good at basketball kept Penn State out. The conference was a basketball conference. It wasn’t even a hybrid conference then. And, had basketball stayed where it was vis-a-via football, the BE would have been fine. But the world changed. The hybrid setup bought the conference more time, but it wasn’t a permanent solution fir either VT or Miami. Tech may not have been a huge name before the later 90’s, but Miami was. Then Tech got big, and those schools + the surviving traditional eastern powers (less the Cult) were a market so package. However, that package began to fail once it took big hits from losing Miami, VT, and BC (to a lesser degree - but they had a decent run of being pretty good). [/QUOTE]