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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3969821, member: 1023"]
Everything except quality of the teams...the New Big East gets bids because of the legacy of the original.  And the performance of those teams demonstrate that it’s typically over seeded.  Again excepting the only real program, Villanova, the league’s post season “success” is laughable.  Teams regularly get bounced by higher seeds, usually in the first weekend.  Creighton was the 2nd Big East team not named Villanova to get past the Round of 32.  But man, so much prestige.

I get why the decision was made.  It’s true the guys who pay for the expensive seats wanted it.  And I also suspect it is true that UConn needed to change the discussion from a declining program so it took a page from GE and Aetna.  It moved its “headquarters” so to speak.  Of course  GE isn’t close to a Fortune 500 company any more and Aetna is owned by a drug store. Neither finished  their planned shiny new headquarters.  But it took eyeballs off their declines. That was UConn’s model I suspect.  Everybody will be so excited about the shiny new conference that they will not notice that the program, like the new league, is nothing like what either one was.

We’re #6!  We’re #6!  Whoopee!
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