Navy didn’t want to join and be a cellar dweller.

What I wish happened in the post-ACC Raid I era (2005-2012) was bringing in Army and Navy in for 4 games apiece and making them part of the tv deal and bowl bids.

The tv money could be split 10 ways, with the Big East holding the rights to the Service Academies and packaging them with their own.

This would have been one less OOC game the BE schools needed to find (dropping them from 5 to 4).

4 BE games + AFA + their rivalry game would mean that Army and Navy would still have 6 slots to fill—plenty of room for a national schedule and the BE could help them fill late Oct-Nov which are the hardest for Indies to fill.

Marinatto and Tranghese should have pursued that.