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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5074669, member: 71"]
There's a small problem with the logic you are using.  The Big East, when initially formed was a conference for men's basketball only.  The conference did not add other sports (track & field, baseball, soccer, etc)  until the NCAA told them they had to in order to remain a valid conference.  There never was any consideration of the conference being an all sports conference when it began and as the bulk of the membership did not participate in football at that level (PC, St John's, Seton Hall and at the time they joined. Villanova, not at all) the idea of making a move to strengthen the football future would have made zero sense.

When football was initially added, the football affiliation was allowed to use the Big East name but for the first few years was explicitly not part of the Bif Est conference, merely a football affiliation that included *then) four members of the Big East (Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Miami).  It wasn't until 1995 (with quite a bit of pressure from the football membership) that it was fully incorporated in the Big East and the non football membership resisted football influence as much as they possibly could.
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