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Message: [QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 22179, member: 686"] It's tough to compare athletic programs from back then, but comparing records fails to account for level of competition. For example, the Rutgers FB record looks really good, until you consider that they were basically a 1AA team playing a 1AA schedule. I agree that it would be a solid conference today, but the programs likely would not have developed the way they have. The Big East all sports conference needed the strength of the bball conference to get started. If not for hoops and ESPN, it's unlikely that the BE would have been viable for as long as it has. Ideally, the NCAA would disband all conferences and reconfigure taking account geography, history and institutional profiles and we would have this conference alignment. But, that is clearly never going to happen. [/QUOTE]