Thank god we're leaving this Sh!thole

[bnoro]

Brett McMurphy @McMurphyCBS
Sources tell @CBSSports Memphis & Big East in final negotiations to make Tigers Big East all-sports members in 2013

 

[SUinNYC]

The real question is whether or not this means we can get out sooner.

 

[44PRIDE]

I just hope that Louisville, Cinic and maybe USF make it out as well. Those other two teams can go to hell for all I care...

 

[BlackKnight76]

Memphis is really going to help that burgeoning football conference.

 

[rrlbees]

Story with SU mention

 

[44PRIDE]

"While the addition of Memphis is for all sports, the Tigers’ would help offset the future losses of men’s basketball powers Syracuse, West Virginia, Syracuse and Pittsburgh."

We're so powerful, he mentions us twice.

 

[crales44]

Dang. We're going to miss out on playing road games in Memphis? Is there any way we can retract our commitment to the ACC?

 

[rrlbees]

New BE map

 

[Scooch]

New BE map

What's (sadly) hysterical is that you only need to remove California, Idaho and Tennessee to represent what the Big East map would have been had SU, Pitt and WVU not left.

This is what has always cracked me up about those who were bemoaning us leaving a "northeastern" conference for a "southern" conference. That "northeastern" conference had us traveling to Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana regularly. I'll trade Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia for that in a cocaine heartbeat. That's what some of us call the "east coast". :bang:

 

[zibby]

I just hope that Louisville, Cinic and maybe USF make it out as well. Those other two teams can go to hell for all I care...

Louisville is the only one worthy of being in a major conference. The other two are major in name only and deserve to be in Conference DOA 2.0.

 

[SUinNYC]

I can live with this...


If West Virginia is allowed to leave early, sources told CBSSports.com that Pittsburgh and Syracuse also would try to leave for the ACC but not until 2013. Although sources said it’s “technically not too late” for Pitt and Syracuse to join the ACC for the 2012 season, the two schools will remain in the Big East in 2012, but would likely negotiate to join the ACC in 2013, a year ahead of schedule.

 

[Whitey23]

@slmandel
Memphis' BCS ranking (CollegeBCS.com) past 4 years: 115, 114, 112, 96. Enjoy, Big East.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

No Air Force then.

 

[zibby]

No Air Force then.

Maybe. Even after scraping the bottom of the barrel, the BE still only has 11 football teams.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Louisville is the only one worthy of being in a major conference. The other two are major in name only and deserve to be in Conference DOA 2.0.

Agreed screw Cinci and USF, they will be right where they belong. How would you like to be Rutgers and UCONN right now? Holy

Louisville will be out soon enough, what a cesspool the new big east is, makes you really want to vomit. It would really kill me if we were still in this mess. Thnak you Gross, thank you Gross. I will remember you come donation time

 

[javadoc]

"While the addition of Memphis is for all sports, the Tigers’ would help offset the future losses of men’s basketball powers Syracuse, West Virginia, Syracuse and Pittsburgh."

We're so powerful, he mentions us twice.

So good good you gotta say it twice twice

 

[Noexcuse]

No Air Force then.

Wait a few minutes. Openings will most likely be available soon.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Maybe. Even after scraping the bottom of the barrel, the BE still only has 11 football teams.

Navy will make 12.

UConn, Rutgers, Cinci, Louisville, USF, UCF, SMU, Houston, Boise, San Diego, Memphis, Navy.

What a diference a decade makes. Oh Lord

 

[zibby]

Navy will make 12.

UConn, Rutgers, Cinci, Louisville, USF, UCF, SMU, Houston, Boise, San Diego, Memphis, Navy.

What a diference a decade makes. Oh Lord

My bad. It's hard to count turds while they're swirling down the drain.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

My bad. It's hard to count turds while they're swirling down the drain.

EXACTLY, just count your blessings

 

[SUinNYC]

UConn, Rutgers, Cinci, Louisville, USF, UCF, SMU, Houston, Boise, San Diego, Memphis, Navy.

My God. It's the first time I've seen all those names listed out together. What a terrible league. For football and basketball. Zero prestige. Zero tradition.

Who, other than the alumni of those schools, would pay to watch any of those teams play? Good luck selling that to networks, Marinatto.

 

[OrangeCrush22]

Navy will make 12.

UConn, Rutgers, Cinci, Louisville, USF, UCF, SMU, Houston, Boise, San Diego, Memphis, Navy.

What a diference a decade makes. Oh Lord

Pretty ugly BCS conference. Poor Rutgers is the only BCS school left in it. :rolling:

You got an FCS call-up, 8 CUSA teams, 2 MWC teams, and an independent (not named Notre Dame/BYU)...

The only deserving CUSA team is UL, and maybe UC. UC never did address their 35k stadium issue, they look pretty genius now, as it'll be hard to get 35k people to watch those teams.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Two FCS call-ups. UConn and USF were both 1-AA's just a dozen years ago.

 

[javadoc]

Zero prestige. Zero tradition.

SMU has a tradition, albeit a rough one.

The only fiddler on the roof that league has is Marinatto, but much more Nero than Tevye.

"You may ask, why is this league called the Big East when it includes San Diego and Boise? I'll tell you. I don't know. But it's a tradition!"

 

[SUinNYC]

Pretty ugly BCS conference.

That's no BCS conference.