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The Reformation: Was It Worth It For The Football Schools?

Hello, and welcome to July.

It’s July 1st as this publishes. That means, officially, 10 full school years/seasons have wound off the clock since The Catholic Seven elected to strike off their own and re-establish the Big East as the best basketball brand in the country. It also means that 10 full years have gone by since six Big East teams elected to stab The Best Basketball Conference Ever Assembled in the back in the name of making a bigger payday elsewhere.

So, that means there’s only one thing to do: Was it actually worth it for those six football schools to go chasing dollar signs?