Your advice has been "beg harder", and it has taken us this far. I guess that is all any of us got now.
I must have missed the press release where the rest of the conference pledged undying loyalty to the Big East if Susan Herbst would just recriprocate. I must have missed the press conference where the ACC said UConn is never going to get an invite. I saw the post where you said UConn would never get an invite, and where you said Tex A&M wasn't going to the SEC.
Is it fun arguing with yourself? That hasn't been my advice. That has been your characterization of Herbst's actions. And you are not proven right when your plan isn't tried, and the conference falls apart anyway.
My advice was for the rest of the big east to go hard after Iowa St, Kansas, KSU, and Baylor early on before the big 12 decided to try and stick together.
Then, my advice was start discussions with UCF & ECU for all sports, and I agreed with you on Houston but I think they should be a backup plan. I said the conference should consider Boise State if we have to for football only, but I left out Navy because they weren't interested in joining before, and I didn't think they were/are a real possibility. But I have said repeatedly, all of this has to have the main goal of retaining BCS status. Which is where we disagree because you want UMass and Houston as options 1 and 2. LMAO
I maintain that Herbst has done this the right way. We want out, we have to want out, at least she is being honest about it. We can work to strengthen the big east, while working toward an ACC invite.
You maintain we aren't valuable enough for an ACC invite, but we are valuable enough to hold the conference together. As if Rutgers won't accept an ACC invite because UConn committed to the Big East.
To use your favorite tactic. The argument you make means that we are as powerful in the Big East as Texas is in the Big 12, and yet as weak on the national landscape as Iowa State is.