To BC, Pitt and Syracuse: Karma is a B*tch
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It is funny- B1G powers- Mich/OSU/PSU - outside of themselves and the playoffs- they have kicked in the teeth of everyone they play...
They don't always schedule a tough OOC because they have to play each other; winning the Big 10 is pretty much an automatic ticket to the playoffs. After this year it's definitely an auto ticket.
You would think the top 3 (and top 5 when Washington/Oregon come in) should be able to play with anyone in the country. The time lag between the end of the season and playoff games could work against them.
I don't recall that! Considering 4 teams were leaving, hard to fathom, and Temple in reality was only kicked out because they pressed the issue of full membership (i.e. if they had just left well enough alone they would have stayed in).
Do you have anything even remotely indicating we were going to get evicted?
Of course he doesn't have that. In 2002 we were beating number one Miami for 3/4s of a game... and they needed help from refs. No way in 2003 is there any real talk of booting Rutgers. But the day we signed with teh Big Ten there has been talk by haters that we should be kicked from the Big Ten.. so people like him can always find *something* to use along those lines.
The basketball only schools were the big problem: they were tight little bitches who didn't want to relinquish control to those bad 'ol football schools. If they had been proactive and expanded so that it was a bigger football conference, Miami would not have wanted to leave in the first place. We really could have had a solid east coast football conference, but they were not going to allow the majority to swing to the football schools.
So South Florida has been 72-97 since they fired him.
That's the first I'm hearing of that.
That wasn't the main point with Temple. Because they were playing in the Vet, they could not schedule home games until November due to the field being used by the Phillies. So that created huge scheduling issues for the Big East.
sooooooo true on the bball schools. such small minded leadership that didn't understand that football drove the bus
just nuts
It was between us and Temple. Removal was based on attendance and results. We barely beat them out.
What are you talking about? They played home games in October and September all the time. Yes they always had to wait for NFL and baseball schedules to be released but the Big East was always late releasing schedules even after. The new stadiums for both the Phillies and Eagles had been approved to be built even prior to the announcement to kick them out so that was not an issue. It was because they only averaged 18,272 per game, never had a wining season, finished last 5 times in 10 years, and never finished higher than second to last.
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I was an undergrad then…think I might be thinking of an article I read at the time. I know we were concerned, but it appears there was no official proposal to do so.