You're right, but it is likely that a couple of them will have a resurgence of sorts once they get into their new league. While Seton Hall, say, might struggle trying to finish at the top of a Big East with Syracuse, UConn, Louisville, Cincy, Georgetown, Pitt, and West Virginia, it is a whole different situation when they only have Georgetown to worry about. Now even if they add some A-10ers, the league top to bottom won't be any where near as good as the Big East has been so there is a much better opportunity for the Seton Halls, St Johns, Providences of the world to find themselves with a chance to be somebody, albeit in a much smaller pond. In fact, I have felt for a long time that the basketball schools as a whole would have benefitted from breaking away for just that very reason. It was too difficult for them to compete against the football schools who had bigger, better and more sophisticated athletic departments. Only Georgetown, something of a special case among the basketball onlies, was in a position to do it somewhat.
