Scooch
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It's well-documented that in the late 80s, after Penn State announced that they were joining the Big Ten, that administrators from SU, BC and Pitt told the Big East that either a football league needed to be formed or they'd have to leave the conference to join one.
At the time a viable option was for those three schools to join with other independents and members of the Metro Conference to form an east coast all-sports league. That league would have featured: Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Miami, Florida State, and Virginia Tech, among others.
So it's interesting (maybe only to me) that in a lot of ways our move to the ACC has been 20+ years in the making. We've traded some of what that previous membership would have been (Rutgers, Temple, WVU, ECU, Louisville, Cincy) for what's in the ACC, but I think that's actually an upgrade all things considered.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...e.aspx?hl=raycom college football league&sc=0
At the time a viable option was for those three schools to join with other independents and members of the Metro Conference to form an east coast all-sports league. That league would have featured: Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Miami, Florida State, and Virginia Tech, among others.
So it's interesting (maybe only to me) that in a lot of ways our move to the ACC has been 20+ years in the making. We've traded some of what that previous membership would have been (Rutgers, Temple, WVU, ECU, Louisville, Cincy) for what's in the ACC, but I think that's actually an upgrade all things considered.
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/...e.aspx?hl=raycom college football league&sc=0