Memphis will make the BIG EAST an offer they can’t refuse, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do…

BC in the ACC is a joke. Who’s its rival now? Maryland? Maryland can’t even make Duke its rival.

“tha U” basically sucks monkey balls. and in monkey balls, i mean donna shalalalalalala’s hanging nips.

and VT, well, they are constantly overrated, crap the bed and have lost to Pitt 3 times in a row.

basiscally, the big east is better than the acc.

So, after the dust settles in WVU’s lawsuit, will DickRod be hunting people down on exotic islands or stabbing you with a bottle?

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Only if his yacht gets shipwrecked in a storm.

Deadspin paging Mr. Swindle. Deadspin paging Mr. Swindle.

Jester -

Who was BC’s rival in the BE? In the years leading up to the defection, it was V Tech.

xhack…my bad. i forgot about all those memorable bc-tech matchups.

gamblers v. goiters. epic.

Totally unrelated… but I never knew there was another “the most dangerous game.” just the one about the dude hunting the dude. 30 seconds of google taught me the truth.

Congrats to Mike. Syracuse and the like in hoops and WVA and Louisville in football really turned around the East after the departures and made the league look much more respectable than it should have at the time. Could have been ugly but has remained respectable.

Rest easy Mike.

Jester – Have any better suggestions? BC’s only real football ‘rival’ historically was Holy Cross, which sunk their program some time ago.

My point being, BC doesn’t really historically ‘belong’ in the BE. They don’t have strong ties to any of the football schools there. You may not think they geographically belong in the ACC, but geographically they make as much sense in the ACC as Marquette does playing basketball in the BE.

So again, who was their BE rival? What was keeping them rooted in a conference that just lost its 2 biggest players?

Point of reference on the “most dangerous game”

the one your thinking of by Richard Connell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game

not the one you’re thinking of by Gavin Lyall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game_(Gavin_Lyall_novel)

xhack…um, uconn?

jester, Uconn wasn’t full fledged Division I until after BC left the Big East

Jester – I don’t think so. UConn and BC have played each other a grand total of 3 times since UConn joined 1A.

Geographical proximity doesn’t make a rivalry/

Expanding the conference to 12 teams will dilute the conference in the same manner as the ACC. Personally, I like how every Big East team plays every other BE team every year. Going to 12 members won’t ensure future inclusion in the BCS….continuing to win will.

Oh, I didn’t know Big East was only a football conference.

Didn’t someone say, “You may not think they geographically belong in the ACC, but geographically they make as much sense in the ACC as Marquette does playing basketball in the BE?”

So, yeah, UConn is a natural rival for BC in football AND hoops.

And what about travel costs for BC and its fans? The closest trip is MD.

All I am saying is that it probably wouldve been more prudent for BC to stay in the Big East. Even though it made the BCS, it probably wouldve had a much easier path to the BCS (no championship game and arguable the BE has stiffer competition). Oh, and BC said they werent going to leave and still did. Damn priests.

What’s up the Finnish theme today? A picture of the Finnish sauna championship in the Reilly post then a Finnair labeled gun (Finland, where there is one gun for every three people!). Glad EDSBS is spreading the Finnish gospel.

Boston College didn’t make the BCS.

BC has never made the BCS, getting knocked out by a 4 win pitt team I believe. That was nice.

I like how absolutely no one likes BC anywhere. They’re literally the ginger kid of college football. And not in the good way.

BC would have been a great rival for UCONN if we could ever beat them in football. They get the recruits they want from New England that UCONN wishes they could get and UCONN lost to a 6th place Wake team last year which shows we’re not even close to ready to compete with BC.

15 – Prudent to stay in the BE?

Certainly not financially.

Your conference is held together with duct tape and Tranghese’s ego. What I loved about the Big East was that Miami held you all at gunpoint, given that they were guaranteed keeping the bowl revenue from any BCS bowl they played in if they remained in the BE….

yet the Canes still bolted for the greener pastures and revenue sharing of the ACC.

We get that you harbor resentment at not being invited to the party in 2002, but we just didn’t want you. You brought nothing to the table, athletically or academically.

Pittsburgh has not been nationally relevant since Dan Marino was doing lines off cheerleaders’ racks.

Or, since we (Clemson) were relevant.

But, one supposes it is the natural reaction of the person that gets dumped to trash the one who dumped them after they have moved on to superior suitors.

oh yeah Coop… Miami left the greener pastures of the ACC… 6-6 records all around and bowl games in Idaho! Meanwhile, the BE has won 3 straight BCS games… something the glorious ACC cant say…

The Big East is held together with duct tape? Why don’t ya go ask Oklahoma, Auburn and Georgia how they feel about playing the Big East?

Oh, and I thought this was about BC? Go take some Ritilin (sp?). It was a good move for Miami. But heck, I’m glad they left the BE now.

The ACC is actually a joke, now.

Again, I don’t recall the Big East having the ability to poach anyone from the ACC. You are not a strong enough conference, athletically, academically, and, most importantly, financially, to entice any of our members to move north.

WVa had a nice run which has come to an abrupt end, Fiesta Bowl win noted. Hiring that former VMI coach was brilliant. Unfortunately, in some Clemson fans’ minds, we beat South Carolina, because otherwise RichRod would have been bolted WVa for Clemson instead of Michigan. Call it a hunch. Either way, WVa is gone.

Louisville had a nice run that appears to be over, as well.

Everyone else in the BE blows. How do I know everyone else in the BE blows?

The ACC owned the rest of the league in OOC play, last season, that’s how I know.

Al Groh had a perfect record versus the Big East, last year, that’s how I know.

But, again, I guess I would be bitter, too, if some guy came in and took my girlfriend away from me, and told me he was going to do it before and during the acquisition.

1-9 in BCS games Coop…. Even Ohio State have faired better than you…

WVU is the only school in the Big East with anything close to a program that compete year-in and year-out in the other five BCS conferences. The remaining seven are an ugly mix of urban/commuter schools and state schools from pro sports markets with no history of support for college football. They may put together decent teams from now and then, but they’re essentially glorified C-USA/MAC programs with tiny fan bases, low revenues and poor recruiting areas (in the case of Rutgers, a good recruiting area that will always be poached first by established programs).

24 – That fact does not bring back Miami and VPI, now does it?

Hey Coop..how bout you go hop on your tractor and try to help the good old ACC folks learn how to win bowl games. Also maybe try to teach your TIgers how to win the NIT basketball championship.

Here’s some of the Big East’s OOC schedule, mostly on the road. Might settle the argument whether they are the 3rd best conference…. or a MAC – equivalent.

Auburn, Oklahoma, Penn St., Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, Fresno State, Kentucky, Notre Dame, etc.

As far as the ACC, I think this link says it all.

http://www.statefansnation.com/index.php/archives/2007/12/13/taking-a-bow/

The ACC is the 6th best football league. Have they ever won a BCS game? By the way coop, academically? Yup, no one in the Big East can hold a candle to the Harvard of the South, Florida State.