Does removal of BTC from trading pairs stop or decrease altcoins from crashing?

[chiggz]

We all know that whenever Bitcoin crashes it will also drag the alts in its bloodbath. So if BTC was removed from the Trading pairs how would it impact the price of the Alts? I know this is not going to happen, but what if? And what could it be paired with?

P.S: This is not an anti Bitcoin post. Many alts exist because of Bitcoin.

[Cnut237]

I think the alts would still crash. There are a lot of ERC20 coins that you can only trade against ETH on EtherDelta - and these still fell.
Even if it's an alt that you can only trade for fiat, I think people would still cash out.