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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 22604, member: 297"] It's not that I want to see the Big East die. It's that I want to see Big East conference football die. The Big East conference wasn't designed for football, and once it got into football it became a landing spot for misfits. Worse, that trickled over eventually into basketball too. The Big East could never be taken seriously as an all-sports conference so long as it had so many members in just one of the two major sports. That problem was getting worse, not better when the decision was made to bring in the basketball only schools. I mean, look at the options the BE was considering for football! TCU was a good move, but nothing else would have been. Every other option would have involved major program building or a service academy. I'm sorry, I support the troops but the service academies do not belong in a major football conference. The fact that Navy was a viable option tells you that Big East football is, was, and always will be second rate. Memphis, Houston, ECU, UCF, Nova... you can't really be asking people to take that seriously. The Big East was the only BCS conference actively engaged in program building - there's a reason for that. It didn't fit. Thankfully, the ACC is addressing it, because they are taking the steps to develop a conference that by profile and geography makes sense for the East coast. Adding UCONN/Rutgers/WFVU would further that end, and yes, I'm rooting for this. I want to see BE football demolished. It's a wounded animal that should be put out of its misery, and the sooner the better. I love Big East basketball. Big East hoops makes sense, and it can and will survive. But that's all the Big East should be - a basketball conference for schools with great basketball traditions from the northeast that don't have Div 1 football. [/QUOTE]

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