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Message: [QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4716380, member: 997"] My position on this hasn’t changed. If the Big East could be assured on staying in its current form there’s no other conference I’d want our basketball teams in. Current form defined as (in order of priority): Key teams: Nova, GTown, St John’s MSG Double round robin schedule Dedicated TV contract with block coverage All of the above make the Big East the amazing conference that it is. The problem is the above is fragile. The TV contract could change decidedly in the next go around ruining the wonderful 2-3 game block scheduling weve been enjoying on fox. We are one 2-4 team raid away from possibly disrupting the other 3. Now my friend Friar J says it’s crazy to think that anyone from the big East would want to get in bed with the big 12, but I’m not sure. First let’s talk motive. 1- if you’re not growing, you’re dying. 2- there is a collision coming between the ACC and the big 12. 3- the ACC is inevitably going to lose its major football players, some of the remaining schools will have a basketball mindset (Duke, Cuse, Louisville, for starters). 4- the ACC’s backfill plans when that happens WILL be big east schools. There is undeniably a motivation for the big 12 to leverage its basketball momentum, undercut the ACC’s contingency plan and create a FOMO among ACC basketball schools when the music stops. UConn, Nova, GTown and St John’s would bring: NYC, Philly, DC. It would bring the iconic big east brands. It would bring MSG. It would create an east coast nucleus for Olympics. It would destroy a competitor for basketball contracts and it would create the magnetic advantage of which way teams flow between the ACC and Big 12 when it all goes down. So why would the Big East schools say yes? 1-$ 2-it’s the gun or the money. In the scenario where you say no and they go out and get someone else, you’re staring down the barrel. Repeating my original premise: I don’t want to leave the big East in its current form. But I don’t believe that the big east is immortal. [/QUOTE]

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