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[QUOTE="OrangeMuskyFish, post: 30741, member: 261"]
Honestly, I think the biggest thing was the coaches. Every time it looked like we had programs stepping up, we had coaches being poached. I know nothing about what is considered to be appropriate contract procedures for head coaches, but the ability of college coaches to get out of their contracts is insanely easy. That is on the individual schools to work on. But I think the conference could have earmarked money for bonuses too. Bottom Line, the BE needed to get creative to keep their coaches.

USF and Louisville were good adds, but adding more basketball only schools to the mix was dumb. Should have added ECU and CFU instead. Giving the league deeper football and adding more schools into ACC territory. Not great additions, but it would have put the league in position to be more offensive when it came to this next step of expansion, instead of running for their lives.

Finally, the league needed an offensive facelift. Especially after Rich Rod and Petrino moved on, the league needed to huddle up and say "hey, we play a lot of defensive football in this league, and winning is important, but we lost Miami, VT, WVU, and LOU offenses, and ol Butch is already leading the next upstart Big East program with an offensive approach. We need eyeballs, so lets focus on passing the ball a bit."
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