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Originally Posted by xubrew The circumstances there were entirely different because Temple was never actually in the Big East. They were an affiliate football member. They had no vote and no real say in anything. I'm not going to say that it has never happened, but I personally cannot recall a single incident where a full voting member of a conference was ever kicked out. It did almost happen to UAB, but even they were allowed to stay once they brought back football. The problem with establishing "reasonable criteria" is that whatever you establish pretty much has to be unanimously approved. That's the Catch 22. The schools that don't want to step it up are not going to vote to approve any criteria that they don't want to be bothered with having to meet, so you're kind of stuck. Hey, I feel your frustration. The A10 has some great programs in it, but I can't help but think that they're being held back. You want to play hard ball, but there is no real way to do that. The A10 has some great programs in it that care about basketball, but they have that in the sense that a junkyard has some great stuff in it that, if you pick through it and find it, are very useful. But, it's still a junkyard. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned not being able to form a new league that made A10-like money. I'd venture to say that any new league that may be formed would easily result in making at least twice as much money per school as what the A10 currently makes. I think UD should flirt with the AAC, and if that doesn't work I think that the quality programs that care about basketball the way that UD does (or at least more than the bottom half of the A10 does) should do their own thing. I'm not saying anything that I wasn't saying back in the days when X was a full member.

Are you saying that all decisions require unanimous approval? If that was the case how could anything ever get done? When I was a grad student at Northwestern, the only private in the Big 10, I recall NU complaining often about "always being on the short end of 9-1 votes", Certaining that suggests that unanimity was not required in the Big 10 at the time. I can see a 2/3 requirement, for example. But how could one or two A10 members dictate policy for the entire conference? Does anyone know the facts?

	Temple TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple College became Temple University in 1907. Located in Philadelphia, Temple is a comprehensive public research university with 34,000 students, 8 campuses, and 300 academic degree programs. Notable alumni include Bill Cosby and Daryl Hall. Temple's nickname is the Owls and are fellow A10 Conference members.