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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 3911962, member: 3723"] I mean lets not pretend that isn't exactly what happened to create the existing version of the league. Creighton was in the Missouri Valley before joining the league in 2013 Xavier was in the Atlantic 10 before joining the league in 2013 Butler was in the freaking Horizon League before moving to the A10 for a single year and then ultimately the Big East in 2013 Even the previous version of the Big East had added teams from mid major leagues: Marquette joined the Big East from CUSA in 2005. Before that they were members of the Horizon league and the Great Midwest league for basically the entirety of their athletics program's history DePaul joined the Big East from CUSA in 2005 and was a founding member of CUSA in 1995 Other teams to join in 2005 from CUSA: Louisville, Cincinnati, USF Oh, and not to mention that most people would consider UConn's add from the American as a team moving from a mid major to a power conference. Just over half of the existing league membership was a "mid major" as recently as 16 years ago. Athletic conference membership continuously changes and always has changed. I'm not trying to discredit the current version of the league, I'm just saying let's not act like there isn't precedent for doing exactly what I've bolded in the above. If you were going to add a team (and again it's [B]not[/B] happening), where they currently play shouldn't even be remotely close to a deciding factor. You have to remember these are academic institutions that would be looking for peer schools and like minded institutions (i.e. Jesuits in the case of the Big East) to join together for academic research and other purposes in addition to athletic competition. [/QUOTE]

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