Big East Football: Ripe to Be Picked Again?

Has the Big East learned its lesson since it was raided by the ACC and Miami, Virginia Tech, and Boston College defected?  The lesson was, "Don't sit on your hands while your neighbor picks your pocket." If the Big East had the foresight and expanded first, they probably would have held on to the three schools.  Instead, the ACC acted, and the Big East scrambled to survive. Though it has done a formidable job of creating a top football conference, it has not done enough to remain strong in what has become the "survival of the fittest" world of NCAA football. It will take the Big East decades to even possibly attain the tradition and stability of longstanding conferences like the SEC, Pac-10, and the Big Ten, so Big East decision makers must never again assume that all they have to do is just show up to succeed. As the ACC, SEC, and Big 12 have hailed the benefits that a 12-team conference brings—one being the dollars created by a championship game—the Big Ten could ... (link)