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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 59446, member: 628"]
For as much as I've spent the past 15 years of my Internet existence complaining about the Big East, I find what's going on now to be pretty sad. Seems like it's all-out war now, both between schools, and between schools and conference leadership. It's terribly unfortunate, IMHO.

I don't blame Marrinato for sticking to his guns on the 27-month exit clause. No other BCS conference has faced an existential crisis like the Big East has (twice).  The B12 could let aTm, Nebraska and Colorado walk because the league itself was always going to exist with AQ status as long as Texas & Oklahoma were members.  The BE does not have that security.

As for the "embarrassment" that a lawsuit could bring to the BE, it may work both ways. It seems like WVU is hinging this case on the notion that the BE hasn't addressed it's membership issues, thus "forcing" WVU to the B12 (how friggin' laughable is that, like WVU wouldn't have left even if SU & Pitt were still in the league). What we might find is that the BE was in process of inviting UCF, Houston, SMU, Boise St, Navy and Air Force. If WVU had hung around another couple months I suspect all of those schools would have been offered membership. So then what exactly is WVU's claim? That the BE didn't add 6 more schools within weeks of SU & Pitt departing? Is that realistic to expect?
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