WE WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THIS BIG EAST YOU TALK OF

I could have sworn it was THE Baghdad University.

East Carolina resents South Florida for usurping them as the preeminent directional school in Division I athletics and leapfrogging the Pirates into the Big East.

East Carolina’s alums, student body, and fans would fit right in with West Virginia, South Fla, Rutgers, etc.

What is a directional school? I’ve heard that term mentioned before and I can’t find any explanation for why a college is called a directional school.

@3:

As opposed to Michigan or Kentucky it’s like Central Michigan or Western Kentucky.

But will they have to cancel their annual rivalry game with Baghdad State?

Yes. Postgame fights have gotten out of hand in unusually explosive fashion.

The real question is, what’s their ARP?

From the article:

If he is trying to cut a deal with the Big East, he doesn’t want to blow it by letting it get out before the ink has dried. If he’s not, he sure doesn’t want ECU fans (read: “boosters”) to know definitively that they won’t be seeing their Pirates in a BCS bowl anytime soon.

I will go ahead and let the cat out of the bag for ECU boosters — you will not see the Pirates in a BCS bowl anytime soon.

they would definitely up the ante on WfVU fans couch burning antics.

Before acceptance, the school president must be given a Wanny ’Stache Ride.

We also have US $15 Million that we will transfer to your account from our bank in Fukitshotalabad. Just send us Noel Devine, your bank account number, and the blueprints for your exploding couch.

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Not to mention the Beiruit Tech Bombers and the Kabul A&M Camels.

Jihad A+M mocks these infidels and their petty obsequious overtures to the American tyrants and their American football conference.

I referenced ECTC, that is East Carolina Teachers College for the uninformed, prior to reading the article from the New Bern newspaper’s online site.

Allow me to state my amazement at the following:

A) New Bern’s newspaper has a website.

B) Somehow this article found its way to EDSBS, which means that someone HT’d Orson and reads the New Bern newspaper’s online site, or Orson sifted through Internet and found this gem. Either way, amazed.

Oh, and someone should tell Natalie that Utah, Boise State, and Hawaii earned BCS bowl bids without playing in a BCS member conference.

But, yeah, regardless of whether or not East Carolina’s Big East pipe dream comes to fruition, the Pirates will not be playing in a BCS bowl game anytime soon.

Because, David Garrard is not walking through that door…
Marcus Crandell is not walking through that door…
Jeff Blake is not walking through…

So you want have no better options than to be a member of the Big East?

Fixed as per the “If You’re Living In East St. Louis, Even Cleveland Starts Looking Pretty Good” Rule.

1. But South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia do not count. Southern California claims not to be directional, but I beg to differ.

I recently spent a week of training in beautiful Greenville, North Carolina, at ECU. Here’s what I learned about the place:

-Greenville is more or less in the swamp
-Greenville floods when it rains
-The ECU campus is mundane (think 1940’s Sanitarium with a few hulking brutalist concrete buildings scattered about)
-Their facilities are dilapidated
-Greenville has unusually high STD rates (Per my NC-born friend Jim: “Main, them ECU chicks ain’t nothin but sluts!”)
-Their academics are roughly the 7th best in NC
-They don’t receive much funding
-They have a humorously low endowment
-Their favorite color is purple
-Their mascot is a pirate
-They are way too into the “pirate” thing

I think they’d be perfect for the BEast.

“Meanwhile, ECU athletics director Terry Holland has aligned the Pirates’ non-conference schedule to be comparable to any BCS team (this season ECU opens with Virginia Tech in Charlotte, hosts West Virginia and travels to Virginia and in-state rival N.C. State).”

Yeah – that is definitely the same as playing in the SEC East.

@Coop – if you mean drinkin’ and fightin’ then, exactly.

That said, ECU would be a good fit for the Big East, IMO.

Now if only they could get the T(el Aviv)Tech Red Rabbis to sign up. That’s how you start a rivalry.

Oh, I forgot..
the pride and joy of their academic offering is “Rural Education.”

They also apparently have some department that is devoted primarily to pirates.

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Since there is a University of California, the University of Southern California is a directional school. Even if they don’t like it. I also agree that West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina do not count since that is the name of the state. However, Clempson is a directional school, thus being the exception that proves the rule.

@ 18 – Passive language aside, the author of the article merely meant that ECU’s non-conference slate is comparable to anyone’s in the country.

Yet, not surprisingly, another Gamecock brings up the impossibility of the SEC East schedule.

The SEC East is hard, we get it.

You know who doesn’t complain about the SEC East being so difficult?

Georgia
Florida
Tennessee – except for Mike Adams

I guess it is because all of the above don’t have a problem winning SEC East titles, and Georgia and Florida even have enough fight in them to handle their in-state rivals after the conference season is completed.

But, if the SEC is too hard for you, and I don’t recall anyone putting a gun to your head and forcing you to join the SEC, I would imagine the Big East or Conference USA would love to have you.

Besides the precedent is there for you to leave a conference, only this time you will not be able to cite the stringent academic requirements as the reason for your departure.

We apologize for making our kids go to class, as I know that was a major inconvenience to you at the time.

And by Mike Adams, Coop, you mean John Adams, I believe.

It’s a good thing they changed their name a couple years ago; I bet the NCAA would’ve considered “Saddam University” abusive and hostile.

Shit. Mea Culpa: Saddam University = Al-Nahrain University. I think they’re a D-2 university.

needanewname @ 22 – Eh? Directional U’s are all lesser state schools with a compass direction not included in the state name. Hence “Eastern Michigan” and “Eastern Carolina.”

Thus the existence of a University of California is immaterial. The good people of Cal and their extension campus in Westwood wouldn’t hesitate to call USC a lesser school, but it’s not part of the state system.