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Are pretty close to how I saw it as well. The Big East was a sham. You are right the BEFC seldom got deserved praise and the same can be said for the ACC at times. Maybe it is as you say, a result of having so many private schools, which always lean basketball.
I think instead of a raid the ACC and BEFC should have merged as was proposed at the time. The new conference would retain 8 teams in each division the The Old ACC and the BEFC, which means one of the old ACC teams would need to move to the BEFC division. I would push UMD or UVA in that regard. Alternatively they could have moved Miami to the ACC and moved both UMD and UVA into the BEFC division.
I think all of the chaos that came along for everyone would be different and it would have been an incredible conference for that time.
Big East Division
Boston College
Maryland
Pitt
Rutgers
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
WVU
Atlantic Coast Division
Clemson
Duke
FSU
Georgia Tech
Miami
NC State
UNC
Wake Forest
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Posted: 11/17/2021 at 4:26PM