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RE: Why did the Great Midwest Conference form?
(09-10-2017 10:21 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  The thing about the Super Metro is by rejecting it, Louisville actually hurt their aspirations in the short-term.
No Florida State and South Carolina were not going to be part of the Super Metro as soon as they had choices.
BUT the Big East wasn't enthusiastic about adding football and stayed out of it all until the Super Metro talks collapsed.

Louisville, Cincinnati, ECU, Memphis and Tulane would have been in the Bowl Coalition, Bowl Alliance and then the BCS.
Big East would likely have evolved into something like what it is now 10 or 15 years sooner.

Super metro could have likely gotten the Big East members to be football only affiliates. I believe you only needed 6 full members back then not the 8 you have to have now
09-10-2017 10:40 PM
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