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Message: [QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 30376, member: 230"] The consensus is that we would have been bridesmaids because, 1) other schools would have accepted, and 2) the Big East was destined for oblivion. What if Pitt and SU said no thanks. 1) The ACC wanted an expanded footprint with acceptable schools. UCon is unacceptable due to a hard earned and well deserved shady reputation. Rutgers has a case but they have no following. Everyone else is clearly unsuitable for the ACC as basketball onlies are out of consideration and the Dames are not interested in marriage. The Ville and W. Virginia do not cut it in academics nor do they expand the ACC footprint, etc. The ACC wants to stay on the east coast. That would rule out Kansas and other Big 12 refugees. 2) With the addition of TCU and the availability of Big 12 refugees the Big East could have added a couple of plums, and split into two leagues with some provision for inter league ties like a Big East challenge similar to ACC/Big10. Like any decision, there are risks that go with both options. Perhaps we did the right thing. Perhaps not. Perhaps the ACC will be raided by the financial kings, the SEC? What bugs me is that the ACC North will be a 2 team conference, 3 at most if UCon comes, and that is a big if. It is far inferior to the Big East. And now we have the possibility of NYC home games. This is a big gamble in terms of our fan base. Football drives the revenue bus, but there is value to playing to your strength. Basketball is our strength. We are joining a league, ACC North, that is no better than the A-10. The only team with potential to improve is the Terps, due to Baltimore. The rest are perpetual nobodies that never benefited from ACC association in terms of becoming basketball relevant. There is no reason to believe that they will get better due to the presence of Pitt and us. [/QUOTE]

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