2011 College Football Season

[naiwf]

I can't believe Syracuse is leaving the Big East

[The Heartbreak Kid]

I'll admit. It's weird to read that Syracuse and Pitt wanting to leave the Big East. It seems like TCU joining the conference would maybe be more of an incentive to stay.

Unless they feel threatened by TCU joining?

[Meacon Keaton]

Hey, how 'bout that? We are a good team when we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. ^_^

[Blaze09]

Hey Meacon,

Good job not making this reality for the 3rd straight week

[Meacon Keaton]

Doesn't matter where you start, matters where ya' finish baby. We'll be ranked ahead of Michigan when it's all said and done, that's fo' sho'.

[Blaze09]

Okay, I'm done.

[Lint]

So Miami held Ohio State to just 35 yards passing. Awesome

[sahyder1]

Did you guys just see this play in the FSU/Oklahoma game? How the heck did Greene catch that? 13-13 in the 4th quarter.

[Meacon Keaton]

I can't stand Oklahoma or Florida State. Yet I've been stuck to the television like glue. Wish they'd both lose.

[naiwf]

I can't stand Oklahoma or Florida State. Yet I've been stuck to the television like glue. Wish they'd both lose.

*sigh* Makes you wish for the good old days where a tie was worse than a loss, because it potentially killed 2 teams seasons at once.

In former Big East team news on this day where my conference is basically dead to me, I'm happy that Miami won the Death Penalty Bowl.

[Lowerdeck]

The era of four 16 team superconferences is upon us.

Big 12 and Big East implode, the best get taken by the other four conferences. Mountain West and Conf USA grabs the best of the rest.

[HailtotheYo]

ACC Expansion Official

Let the games begin again.

Also, LOL Kansas. Take a look at this box score: HERE and tell me what you see. HOLY FUCK GEORGIA TECH .... that's just insane.

[JStarr]

I do think this is as much a basketball decision as a football one, especially for Syracuse (I heard they shut down their program after McNabb graduated). There's a ton more money in football but the ACC and Big East are basketball-first conferences, the only two in the nation.

While I'm not trying to pick an argument and in regards to these two schools basketball probably is helping the decision .... none of this is about basketball. Even the ACC is shifting, and has been for a few years now. NC football is just as prominent as NC basketball the last 5 years, same with Wake Forest. Outside of Duke, none of the ACC basketball powers have a football program that seriously trails the hoopsters anymore. Even Maryland has evened out.

Simple enough for the Big East schools. Outside of the Big 12, the Big East is the conference on life support. There's no more room in the Big 10, and the ACC is probably looking for back up plans. The ACC is much more attractive overall and at least this way you're being proactive and not ending up "in a Baylor."

King, you're my boy and all, but put the pipe down. Oklahoma football isn't as prominent as UNC basketball, let alone UNC football. Soon as Carolina football's ranked preseason top-5 every season, wins a couple of titles, or Everett Withers starts challenging the upper reaches of the all-time win lists, then we can talk.

College football's about to make me completely puke.

[gunnar hendershow]

The Big East is at risk for implosion because of the number of schools who are members who do not field football teams. There's WVU, and next year TCU, in the conference now and after that you have Connecticut (They were good under Edsall), USF (Okay, might become a solid program), and some other guys. I don't know if the MWC will gobble up the spare parts after all this is done (The Kansas schools being the main two schools which come to mind) but I don't think we end up with 4 super conferences as much as 4 big conferences and a smaller conference that gets to play in the BCS too. Big Ten won't go bigger than 12 schools right now, and there's no telling whether any of the other conferences are trying to expand past 14 right now. There's still some dominoes to fall for the Big East to dissolve, but if a few more football programs bolt then the conference will be off the map. I don't see, as a couple people have suggested, them becoming a hoops-only conference. No incentive for for a school to either play as an Independent or in a small conference just to play Big East basketball. When OU and Texas reach their decisions in the coming days it's going to kickstart a wild few weeks, if the last few haven't already been crazy enough.

And, HTTK, after I thought about it more there's very little basketball influencing the decision. You're basically right in that regard.

[sahyder1]

I could see Rutgers and/or UConn ending up in the ACC with Big East Basketball only schools sticking together as a basketball conference with the likes of Georgetown, Notre Dame, Seton Hall, St. John's and schools that might go to a lesser conference for football but keep their basketball teams here like Louisville and Cincy.

[HailtotheYo]

King, you're my boy and all, but put the pipe down. Oklahoma football isn't as prominent as UNC basketball, let alone UNC football. Soon as Carolina football's ranked preseason top-5 every season, wins a couple of titles, or Everett Withers starts challenging the upper reaches of the all-time win lists, then we can talk.

College football's about to make me completely puke.

Going back and looking, I thought there was more than one shitting of the bed seasons for UNC basketball but it turns out it was only 09-10. My bad on that. I [clemens]misremembered[/clemens] ... it happens.

If the Big East were smart, it'd do everything in its power to get Notre Dame to jump on board with football. You're essentially handing them a BCS spot if they get their shit together. What, win one MAYBE two rough conference games a year to ensure it ? Notre Dame would be mad to hold out anymore at this rate especially with the landscape change that's coming. The Big Ten is not taking them and has no interest in further expansion right now.

I think the ACC/Big East should trade USF/BC ... they need to switch and fit the other conference much better than the one they're in.

Let's not forget that Nevada and Fresno St are already out of the WAC next year, AND La Tech already has an agreement in place with the WAC that would see them to Conference USA free and clear should CUSA agree to let them in. The WAC pieces will either fill out some conferences or join with cast offs to essentially form the new WAC level conference. Sure, they gain UTSA/Texas State next year but uh yeah ... that's shit for 5-10 years honestly.

Oddly enough, the Sun Belt looks best positioned to weather the upcoming shit storm without any kind of break up or worries. Sometimes it pays to be the the lil guy in the fight (although I'd love to see the WAC/Sun Belt combine and shove the middle finger up everyone's ass).

[Lowerdeck]

Everyone's now predicting the demise of the Big East as well.

If UConn and Rutgers were smart, they would be scratching and clawing to get into the ACC. If not Rutgers, then USF.

I could see Rutgers and/or UConn ending up in the ACC with Big East Basketball only schools sticking together as a basketball conference with the likes of Georgetown, Notre Dame, Seton Hall, St. John's and schools that might go to a lesser conference for football but keep their basketball teams here like Louisville and Cincy.

Villanova and Georgetown play in lesser football conferences already.

I could see the Big East in tact as a basketball conference without football. But most of the big football players will run off. USF will probably bail when UConn/Rutgers follow suit. TCU never should have went here in the first place.

[Berober]

ND in Big East would mean playing TCU as of next year however HttK.

[HailtotheYo]

ND in Big East would mean playing TCU as of next year however HttK.

I know, that's why I said "winning one MAYBE two rough conference games a year" ... (Y)

Reports are that UCONN is aggressively beating down the ACC door for entry.

And uh, this didn't take long: PAC SuperConference formation heating up

Villanova and Georgetown play in lesser football conferences already.

Well, when you're 1-AA in football ... however I'd probably put the CAA up against the Big East on the football field

[HailtotheYo]

Regents give OK/TX Green Light

B12/BE leftovers talk merger

Also, UNC has vacated its wins from 08 and 09