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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 1082519, member: 38"] Conference realignment had nothing to do with our moving to BCS. We were transitioning before realignment started. We entered the Big East one year ahead of schedule because of realignment, but it was already happening - our application to the Big East was submitted in 1999 and we were full IA by 2002. South Florida played its first football game of any kind in 1997 - they played four years at I-AA and then moved to IA and ultimately a BCS conference. So, obviously, we were not the only program to do so. Still think we were a beneficiary of conference realignment? [/QUOTE]