Temple to the Big East?

Honestly, you are confusing the hell out of me. Are you implying that Oregon's success is tied to some billboards they ran in NYC 10 years ago?

The Big East just added Temple and Memphis. If that isn't a clear indication that we have to get the hell out of this conference, I don't what is.

....and there we go....I look over there, and realize you've got a hockey rink on the field at Rentschler, that you choose to put up for all the public to see, and think to myself.....oh yeah.....and move on.

Thanks for your support of UConn football, hockey man.

San diego State, Boise State, SMU, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Cincinatti=BEWest
UCONN, Rutgers, USF, UCF, Temple, Navy, BEEast...seems like we need one more, no?

One thing I think the Temple moves tells us is that the Big East is committed to football for the long haul. There will be no basketball / football split ever. The ACC could announce that they are adding UCONN and Rutgers tomorrow and the Big East would probably respond by adding UMASS and another team. This is the first real proactive move by the league, adding a new school before we lose another school. Each move up to this point has to some extent been reactive.

I also think there is a solid offer from NBC in the bag. Villanova had to swallow hard for this to happen.

If true, they fill the hole in the schedule this year so no FCS opponent which is good. That's about it.

And we're supposed to do what exactly? Pissing and moaning is not going to accomplish anything. Nor is begging to join the ACC, which is becoming its own disaster.

Slave to tobacco road? Please. More like a slave to Providence. You over state things like no one I've ever experienced.

Not that we have an offer, and we may never have an offer, but the B1G or ACC are significantly better landing spots than what is happening around us right now. This isn't the league we joined. Give me the B1G, please. But short of that, nearly half of the ACC will be schools we were originally joining the BE FB conference to be with. There is only 1 remaining BE school left from when we moved up - RU (well, 2 if Temple does come back - they were such a huge hit the first time aaround). We have significantly more in common with the members of the ACC and B1G. Even if this next BE TV contract is more money, get us out.

"I'd rather be a dog sh*tting in the plush green grass with all the other dogs, as opposed to scabbed over rodent scurrying around every dumpster wondering where my next scrap is coming from" - SAMCRO. Remember that.

I wonder how UNLV would fare, just a thought.

Apparently this website is saying something about Temple.

http://www.fbschedules.com/2012/02/temple-likely-to-join-big-east-in-2012/


All sports? Very interesting!

Take Louisville out of your West, they'll be in the B12 East in a year or two.

and go where?


I suppose it all comes down to whether or not your follower or leader kind of mentality. I don't want anything to do with the ACC. I didn't in the past, and I don't now. What I"ve wanted all along, is for us to get our priorities straight. In 2012 and going forward, should we actually align elsewhere in the country with new institutions and leave the conference we've been affiliated with since 1979..... we'd be a better fit for the big 10 alliance of schools, than we are the ACC anyway.

But as said, what I've wanted all along, was to get our priorities straight. I want a northeastern all sports intercollegiate athletic conference competiting at the highest levels in all sports, most importantly FOOTBALL, and at the same time, that has it's f*ckign priorities flying f8cking straight. We've competed in the northeast at the top level, but up until 2010, the priorities in the league weren't right, and what's happened all along since 1990, has happened because of the priorities. Up until this past year, I wanted out.

Even when we were winning our basketball national championship in 1999, by beating Duke at Tropicana Field, and Ricky Moore was scoring like a maching in the first half and locked down Trajan Langdon like Randy Edsall on a quarterback in the second - I wanted out of the Big East. I didn't want IN to the ACC though.

I no longer want out, because those priorities, have clearly, CLEARLY changed.

We're in the process of building that northeast conference right now, with any and all of the pieces that are left, and we're going to be the leaders in making it happen, not followers. Football is going to spread out nationwide now, because establishing this kind of athletic conference in the northeast, solidly, is happening 20 years late.

Basketball is only suffering right now, because of the basketball oriented leadership of this conference and it's decision making by it's members for the past 30 years. Get a grip on it, and it won't seem so bad, it was all brought on by ourselves, themselves.

Football is NOT suffering becuase of anything that's happening, football has gotten stronger actually, and basketball can continue to be just as strong as ever. Memphis and Temple basketball is not a terrible thing, and NCAA tournament appearances are what matter in b-ball.

It's a generation of television involvement in college sports since 1984, that has led to the opinion, that anything else, besides actually winning, is most important. That who you play, is actually more important, than winning.

Nonsense. You compete to win, and you're only limited as to how far you can go, as to how high you set your goals.

I hope you will give the ok for me to add that as a sig line. hahahahaha perfect.

of course my good man, of course.

before I pay for season tix March 1 (to avoid the $20 ordering fee) I plan on calling Storrs and ask if they plan on bringing down the cost of the package if Temple takes WVU's place. I welcome others to do the same #wardepleasesaveusfromthisnightmare