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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 184431, member: 297"]
I don't consider my statement that the Big East has diluted the BCS brand to be a statement trashing the conference. Trashing the conference would imply to me a baseless argument. 
 
It's not a baseless argument though. The number of teams that will be recognized as belonging to a BCS conference has increased. It seems pretty simple to me that if you're increasing the number of teams in the BCS, and those teams weren't thought to be deserving of BCS status at the formation of the BCS, you have diluted the BCS just by natural consequence. The Big East has been and is the prime offender in increasing the number of teams in the BCS. 
 
If it was just that, maybe the argument isn't so strong. But look at some of the teams now in the BCS - UCONN. New program. South Florida. New program. Cincinnati. Middling program. SMU. Previously dead program. Navy. A service academy (I mean, really?). Memphis. Middling program. Louisville. Only recently a respectable program
 
Boise State outweighs that? Houston coming off a great year outweighs that?
 
Conclusion - the Big East has diluted the BCS.
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