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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 4308417, member: 6357"] Interesting speculation about Cuse eventually going back to the Big East. [URL unfurl="true"]https://theathletic.com/3438266/2022/07/21/gonzaga-big-east-pac-12/?source=user_shared_article[/URL] [B]Brian:[/B] As our friend Andy Staples has astutely said on all things realignment: The only limit to any of this is the imagination of a commissioner or president or administrator. It’s foolish to wave off any potential outcome. I’m not inclined to believe Gonzaga is in any rush to change anything. But if I’m the Big East, I’m keeping the lines of communication open, if not red-hot with negotiations. Logistically, I’d imagine adding Gonzaga requires adding another West Coast-ish travel partner to have this make any sense from an athlete-welfare perspective; it doesn’t seem altogether sensible to do this and make teams fly three time zones away and back for one game. Finding said partner is probably one of the easier parts in this pretend (for now) version of reality, though. Money talks. Here’s where I would really apply the pressure, if anyone in the Big East is inclined to do so: reconnect with some old friends who are absolutely going to be left behind in any Football Megaconference Structure and offer a lifeline. Under those circumstances, does the UConn model look so bad to say … [URL='https://theathletic.com/team/syracuse-orange-college-basketball/']Syracuse[/URL], especially? Or [URL='https://theathletic.com/team/pittsburgh-panthers-college-basketball/']Pittsburgh[/URL]? Or even [URL='https://theathletic.com/team/boston-college-eagles-college-basketball/']Boston College[/URL]? No one is arguing any of them should drop football. That’s a non-starter. But if you’re not playing football in one of the two or three leagues that matters — according to this thought exercise, anyway — why not play your hoops and other sports in a conference that definitely matters and put the gridiron product in the American or Conference USA or some such? I’d love to say this is entirely my idea, but it’s generated by conversations with people in the sport, so I wonder how many legs it could have. And also call Duke. Because why not? [/QUOTE]

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