What if the Big East had stayed together?

[East Coast Mustang]

Kind of depressing to think about this in retrospect, but man, what a basketball conference we could’ve had (without much drop off in football).

The ΓÇ£Catholic 7ΓÇ¥ that split away at the end of the old Big East were DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St Johns, Seton Hall, and Villanova. What if we’d kept them in a 15-team league (like the ACC is now) with nine football members: Navy (football only), Temple, UConn, USF, UCF, Memphis, Cincinnati, Houston, and SMU. ECU, Tulane, and Tulsa would’ve been the odd men out and stayed in C-USA.

Almost no drop off in football competition (although there’d be no AAC champ game, but with round-robin scheduling, not a big deal) and a massive upgrade in the hoops profile with a fat TV contract and annual conference tourney at MSG.

Sorry for the depressing post.

[sdhusky]

Would have been a big drop off from the old BE.

[angryfan04]

It would not as over rated as it usually is

[One Trick Pony]

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