(06-03-2020 07:43 PM)HartfordHusky Wrote:  

(06-03-2020 02:53 PM)pablowow Wrote:  

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(06-03-2020 01:21 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(06-03-2020 10:35 AM)TheBasketBallOpinion Wrote:  Also a rumor that Georgetown did NOT want to leave the FBS schools and had to be brought kicking and screaming. Honestly love how it turned out tho.

That was when ex-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, head of Georgetown's Board of Directors, was all-in on the "big schools in big markets" plan. Houston, UCF, SMU? Try Houston, Orlando, DFW. Tagliabue and Swarbrick (Notre DAme AD) were big movers and shakers in the "Big East of Reno" football conference plan.

When "the FBS schools" no longer included Louisville AND UConn, that was the end.

Yeah, and from my understanding, it was Georgetown (Lee Reed) and Marquette (then-AD Larry Williams) that were the big leaders of the breakaway for the C7.

Truth is the plan was a good one and if the C7 were together with all of the football schools added would still represent possibly the best conference in basketball and the brand would have surely added even more power at the p5 table ..... as it sits today the Big East has to try to push for their relevance in the big picture and the American has to work on their own for their voice... what’s interesting they both gain respect in market... but the basketball would be a the most powerful with 10 plus teams per year and regional schedules that would have benifit Ted all from the size of teams in conference.....

I don’t disagree. The conference should not have split. AAC Football performance plus the Big East brand and hoops performance would have been very strong.

Strongly agree with this. I would have liked for the OBE to stick together with what ever FB replacements the conference needed. However I didn't have a vote and more than likely would have been voted down anyway if I did.