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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 21173, member: 289"]
People are blaming the Big East commissioners for not doing enough to keep the conference together. I think the conference was inherently flawed from the beginning because it combined schools that played both big-time football and basketball and those that played only big-time basketball and those groups were going to have inherently different priorities.

What if, in the late 70's, the football-basketball schools in the Northeast had formed one conference and the leading basketball schools had formed another:

-B: some combination of Boston College, Syracuse, Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Virignia Tech, Rutgers, Temple, Army, Navy.

B only: some combination of Holy Cross, Connecticut, Providence, St. John's, Fordham, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Villanova, St. Joseph's LaSalle, Duquesne, St. Bonaventure.

I think if that had been done, both organizations would still be in tact. They might have added a couple of teams to get to 12 in football, (Cincinnati and Lousiville?). There could have been a basketball rivalry between the two with a certain amount of non-conference games or even an annual "challenge" tournament. I think we might have been very satisfied with that result.
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