Is the Big East better off without Miami?

Nice try Matt Hayes. I don't buy it. You said it best:

The Big East lost the nation's best program, the nation's most overrated program (Virginia Tech) and the Boston television market. Hardly disastrous.

Maybe not disatrous, but as a football conference the Big East will not be better. In hoops they will be strong again with the raiding of C-USA. But whether or not success in hoops and struggling in football will result in equal or greater revenue for the conference remains to be seen. I don't see how it can. TV markets = money, so you cannot just disregard losing Miami and BC.

One thing you do have right is that winning is the ultimate cure. But to win you have to get the horses. The ACC will get the horses, along with the other power football conferences. We continue to load up with the top hoops talent. The Big East will definitely compete here - but in football I don't see it. I would not be surprised to see the Big East lose its BCS spot and even your ties with Notre Dame don't mean what they used to now that they are in a downslide. Will they even stay with you? I doubt it.

The ACC appears to be developing into one of the most successfull balanced winning conferences when all major sports are considered. The "new" ACC should only take that to the next level.