When you make such a stand, you put a bulls-eye on your back. When you do what BC did and say "This will hurt us," and another fellow member says, "Too bad," without that fellow member having an absolute reason to take such a stand, well then, such stands against a school like BC aren't made. If it had been NC State that blackballed UConn, I would have agreed with you. But BC actually has a logical argument to make about the region and UConn as competition. NC State doesn't. This is no different than schools such as Florida and Clemson making arguments in the SEC about ACC schools invading their territory. Other members will respect such stands. Why? Because they expect reciprocal concern for their own interests. BC put a marker down when they blackballed us. No one else would put down a marker against them, not when they could simply shrug and say, "Pitt is just as good" or "almost as good" or "an acceptable substitute." Plus, it's likely schools such as FSU and Clemson simply sat out the whole discussion because they were against expansion from the start.
