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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeMuskyFish, post: 30900, member: 261"] How can you say they did as good as they could to restock when they went after DePaul and Marquette? We already had one of the best, if not THE best, conference in basketball... we needed football schools that had the potential to grow into dangerous programs once they had the chance to get into a BCS conference and develop over a few recruiting cycles, while also giving us a couple basketball programs that could be bottom feeders for our top-tier teams to fatten up on. Out of four possible pluses, Marquette and DePaul brought one... the fact that DePaul stunk at basketball... wow. Great. Now, make no mistake, I am not saying Marquette's basketball program isn't a good one, but to me, we got no value out of it. Just another good, but not great, team that beat up on our top-tier teams, but couldn't really join them. [/QUOTE]