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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 30975, member: 652"]
I slightly disagree Marquette and DePaul were brought in so the conference would be balanced at 8 football/8 basketball school. Providence College didn't want to be outnumbered at the President/Chancellor meetings and run the risk of a 10/6 split and leave all the votes up to a football school majority. The additions of Marquette and DePaul were a power play by the basketball schools when they had the leverage because the football schools needed 3 new members because if Va Tech, BC, and Miami remained the football schools would have probably been forced to split and the basketball onlies i.e. really only Providence College and Seton Hall realized they were the ugly ducklings and wanted protection when the football schools split. Remember in 2005 when this BMW as Kaiser calls became 16 teams the NCAA said you must remain together for 5 years to get your NCAA Tournament shares and keep your automatic bid to the NCAA that was all Providence cared about adding the Chicago market was helpful but Marquette and DePaul were just to warm bodies available from C-USA who were smartly becoming an all-sports conference.
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