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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 2880432, member: 44"] Mmm, we kind of can know for much of it. Let's look at them one at a time: 1. For the Cuse and Pitt addition to the ACC the prime factor was ESPN's desire to destabilize the Old Big East and shore up a then shaky ACC. The original targets were Syracuse and UConn. BC was on the expansion committee and, effectively, black balled UConn because (BC) wanted to be the only New England team in the ACC. That's documented. Defilippo bragged about it to Blauds while he was at the Boston Globe. Herbst was not UConn's president. 2. For the Rutgers addition to the Big 10, RU was simply a better choice. It gave the Big entry to the NYC DMA (which would have as well) but NJ 9M people are more than CT's 3M. Add to that that RU was AAU and contiguous with PA and it becomes a clear choice. We know that there are no lawsuit bad feelings here because, no one in the B1G was sued. 3. For the Louisville to the ACC, it is well documented that FSU resented the extent of Tobacco Road's sway in conference. The last addition was, in its view, basketball centered and it made it clear that the failure to go with a strong football school would make FSU consider leaving the conference. Clemson and our old friends BC backed this play. The rest of the conference prudently went along. Now here we may find some agreement in that I feel like Warde and Herbst had a puncher's chance to change minds but they would have had to flown back to the States and worked their butts off. Would it have worked? Unlikely, but possible. Here, Herbst's relationships may have cost her. She relied on a Duke connection, who gave her the Tobacco Road view that UConn would be in. It just happened to be wrong. 4. The Big 12 expansion probably failed with the BYU homosexual scandal. They were the big football school in that expansion. Once they became tainted, expansion was less attractive. (I feel like I should make this my signature.) [/QUOTE]

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