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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3215592, member: 1526"] UCONN is a founding, charter member of the original Big East Conference on May 31, 1979, which also included BS College, Providence, Syracuse, St. John's, Seton Hall and Georgetown. Villanova joined one year later (1980). The AAC is the successor entity to the original BE. Cincinnati and USF were the other two original BE teams which stayed with UCONN in the successor league. The NBE we are joining bears no relationship to the original except for buying the name and the record books from us, USF and Cinn. You are correct as to Herbst's misconception about the AAC as a conference. Technically it has no charter members because it's a successor in name only. I suppose a twisted argument could be made that UCONN, being the sole remaining founding member of the 1979 BE makes it also the lone charter member of the AAC, but it's merely a successor, not a new conference. It makes UCONN the only member of the conference started in 1979 that belonged from the beginning until likely next year or the year after. I guess you could say we are the only founding member of the AAC because it's really the original BE with a new name, but even so, Herbst is still wrong. She called us, "...a founding member of the AAC." That's flat out wrong because the other schools are all newbies compared to us, and none were our partners in 1979 when the original BE was formed. Indirectly referring to the others as "founders" of the AAC is incorrect. [/QUOTE]

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