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[QUOTE="nccusefan, post: 5660199, member: 846"]
Everyone points to the success that UCONN and Villanova have had winning 5 NCAA Tournaments since we left for the ACC.  I will agree that it annoys me the success UCONN has had while Syracuse has floundered but there is no guarantee we would be any better off in The Big East.   I posted earlier that played out many of the issues that have contributed to the failures on the court since joining the ACC.  We would still have those same issues plus significantly less money.  Had we stayed in The Big East we could just as easily fallen off like Georgetown and without the money needed to correct things.

If anything the fate was sealed when The Big East was formed. Had we instead joined the Joe Paterno proposed Eastern Conference I think things might have been different.  An all sports conference with Syracuse, Penn State, Pitt, BC, Rutgers, WVU, Temple, MD, and VT would have been a solid foundation.  When it came time to expand there would have been opportunities to expand to add schools from a pool of Army, Navy, FSU, ECU, Louisville, Miami, and Memphis.  Without the associate membership to The Big East and ACC it may have forced ND to join a conference.
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