RE: McMurphy: Marinatto easy to target for Big East woes, but he's hardly alone
The BE was never in a stable power position. You had and have different factions with different agenda's. The Commish of any league has limited power. It goes to the school prez. In the BE it was all about the short term. If the BE had brought in a couple more it would have been better off because those schools would have had more time building and thus the league left over after raids would have been better. NOTHING could have been done by anyone to avoid defections.