(12-14-2012 07:44 AM)baruna falls Wrote:  The death blow came from WV, Rutgers, Miami and VA Tech, not wanting to be in the league anymore. So put that sorry excuse for insight back in your pocket. If this league was so great these teams would not have left. What does it say that they did not want to be part of the "big" basketball school agenda. Get the facts straight. ECU and Tulane did nothing to destroy what already was embers before we got here. The 7 basketball schools should look themselves in the mirror and ask why the schools that left wanted to nothing to do with them. This is classic denial. It's like the kid who chases all his friends away telling himself that its their problem not his. One school leaving is an anomaly. Multiple schools leaving is pattern.

To be clear it was the consistent basketball first, small school mentality that doomed this conference. It caused Miami, VT and BC to leave. It eventually caused Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse and WVU to decide to start looking for lifeboats. It even caused a fine program that actually strengthened the Big East in nearly every sport it sponsors in Louisville to leave less than a decade after it joined. It even has Cincy looking for a raft a school who has been excellent for us. It has yet another charter member in UConn looking for a lifeboat too. Now the whole cause of instability is removing itself, but its about 12 years or so too late.

That being said its still sad to see all these great hoops matchups/rivalries go away.