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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3491358, member: 1145"]
In every part of the nation, once important rivalries were lost across the decades as one of the schools became know as 'small school' or 'small time.' It is hard for most people to imagine how the University of the South (Sewanee) could have been a charter member of the SEC. Only a little  less absurd to many is that The Citadel, Furman, VMI, Richmond, and William&Mary all once had rivalries with ACC charter members.

When you lose old rivals, you lose history, and when you lose history, you tend to lose not jus\t devotion, but even basic concern.  The region in which that hurt most, harming the college game especially in the sense of maintaining fans, is the northeast.

The Big East solved those issues for basketball in the northeast, but the only way they could have been solved by BE football is if it had both Notre Dame and Penn St. That that league would have had 3 schools south of the Mason-Dixon line (one almost in Cuba) and a school just outside the Chicago TV market show the impossibility of there being a Major conference in Modern football with all members located in the northeast.
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