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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3113154, member: 1023"] In my view people who say go back to the Big East really mean go back to 2004. The current Big East bears no resemblance to the one that existed in the first decade of the 21st century. In no way do Xavier Creighton and Butler equate to Syracuse Pitt and West Virginia. PC Seton Hall and St Johns couldn’t compete when they had to play UConn Syracuse Pitt WVU a few times a year. Now they make the tourney...and get blown out early. And academically outside Georgetown and to a lesser extent Villanova it is the NEC. People from Georgetown have been snooping around the ACC for the Whaler option—all sports but football. The ACC is too polite to laugh at them but it hasn’t been particularly receptive to put it mildly. For me it is about winning. If UCONN goes 10-2 in football and gets to a sweet 16 or Ekite 8 again the crowds will be back. Maybe not all sellouts but that simply doesn’t happen anywhere anymore. [/QUOTE]