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[QUOTE="kingottoiii, post: 30885"]
The BE leadership has always been from Providence. How the other schools allowed the least relevant school to lead things boggles the mind. They always looked down upon FB and actually went to the ACC asking to take on the BE FB schools for FB only, so they didn't have to deal with it. I am sure at that time the ACC said who are these buffoons leading the BE? Why don't we just pick who we want for all sports and leave behind the scraps. If the BE had real leadership they would have realized Temple's value and then raided the ACC first by taking FSU to get to 10 teams for FB and 15 for BBall. IMO the BE was the better FB conf before the raid but just didn't care. This made Miami unhappy and the rest is history.

Once the raid happened the BE should have gone to 10 FB and 16 BBall instead of 8 FB and 16 BBall (adding DePaul and Marquette were not worth it). That was a big mistake. In hindsight the BE's best options available at the time were TCU, Louisville, Houston, UCF, and USF. IMO UCF has always been a better choice vs USF. BE made a mistake there.

So mistake #1 was not caring about FB and keeping Miami happy. Mistake #2 was not going going to 10/16 and taking TCU who was a good program and added Dallas. And finally mistake #3 was not taking the ESPN contract in hopes of making more money with Vs. Even then I still think the BE would eventually be broken up as the B1G and ACC would still be better options for BE teams. But it would have happened maybe 10-15 years from now.
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