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Message: [QUOTE="Kolumbo, post: 5193641, member: 4613"] The conference may need to consider and weigh whether the dilutive nature of those additions are worth making the conference stronger long term. If they were additive, it would have happened already. I didn't say those programs weren't quality, I said they were better in the Big East. [B][I]Just as we would hope our football program would increase significantly in the Big 12 or ACC.[/I][/B] Conference affiliation matters. I would wager St. Louis would get a pretty big bump joining the Big East and competing against neighbors Creighton, Butler, Xavier, Marquette, DePaul. All these other conferences are lifting up lower programs from lower conferences and from FCS. That's how CR works. Not saying the Big East [I][B]should[/B][/I] expand, just that it may be forced to if it wants to succeed long term. And yes, I want out too. [/QUOTE]