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Message: [QUOTE="Huskyforlife, post: 4657159, member: 3403"] The sneakiest part of this conversation is the probability of the Big East keeping up its strength in basketball going forward. We joined at a very good time for the league, but is it sustainable? Jay Wright is gone. Nova went the obviously predictable wrong path of letting his favorite assistant take over, and it’ll be years before they let the next guy clean his mess. Pitino and Matta are dead men collecting their final checks. Pitino is only at St John’s because it’s close to his favorite golf course, and pays more than Iona. Miller and Shaka are only at their schools because of personal context, they’ll be back at Texas and Arizona level schools asap. Georgetown settled for a mediocre coach, who’s probably the most hated in the country among fans. McDermott has been openly searching for a new job ever since his racism dropped. PC, DePaul, and Butler may as well be Wake or BC. They don’t matter, and will never attract coaching talent at the level of a B12 program. We need to be among the best of the rest before the ACC implodes. With us in the mix, it adds incentive for the B12 to add schools like Cuse/Duke/Louisville as natural eastern rivals for us, and to solidify its basketball superiority over the P2. And that’s before all the financial, and other athletic programs that benefit from the affiliation. [/QUOTE]