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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3399353, member: 1145"] The Big East failing as a football conference was a huge blow. And the fact is that BE football was failing from its start up. The only reason the BE agreed to start football was because Syracuse, BC, and Pitt all told the league that if it did not start football that would be open to other options. Miami only joined the BE becaue the ACC refused to go to 10, and Miami was using back channels, and FSU, to get into the ACC no later than 1996. Everybody knew that if Miami left, every BE football member would leave. Gene Corrigan revealed a few years ago that when the ACC decided to add FSU, that Syracuse was discussed, including to go to 10 members. If Syracuse had entered the ACC then with FSU, Syracuse football may not have had any significant slide later. [/QUOTE]