(04-22-2017 08:08 PM)gosports1 Wrote:  if PC, Seton Hall, STJ and Nova all maintained FB would the BE ever have split? Would they have expanded to include West Virginia,Miami etc ? would BC and Syracuse still have left? Would Pitt have been invited? Likely PSU would have been. Would Rutgers and temple have said yes instead of no when first invited? If so , Nova and Seton Hall would not have been. Discuss

At the founding of the Big East, PC was the only non-football school. Seton Hall dropped in 1982, St. John's in 2002, leaving Villanova, Georgetown, and UConn in I-AA. Were it not for a generous Connecticut Legislature and the abandoned Pratt & Whitney facility, UConn would still be in CAA football and still playing basketball in the Big East.