Good article on the Big East

[smupony94]

They all have vowels in their name?

[ColoStang]

Sorry DUDE! But that was a waste of time. Don't you think we'd join up with Big 10/SEC/Pac/ACC if we had the chance, we are who we are.

[Charleston Pony]

my problem with the "super conferences" being limited to 64 teams is that you leave out too many schools that are already pretty heavily invested...not to mention scheduling issues.

If you are going to have 64 teams, presumably with eight 8 team divisions...why not make it 72 schools with eight 9 member divisions? Scheduling is better because you have 4 home, 4 road games to determine a division champ that presumably goes into a playoff scenario. Only question is whether the playoffs include only the 8 division winners or goes to 16 teams like I-AA has done successfully for years.

bring back the SWC/division

[SoCal_Pony]

TOP 63 teams in a 64-team BCS league (4 conferences of 16 teams):

BC
Clemson
FSU
Maryland
NC State
WF
Duke
Ga Tech
Miami
NC
UVA
VT
Texas
aTm
OU
OSU
Kansas
KSU
TTech
Iowa St.
Mizzou
Baylor
LSU
Bama
Auburn
Arky
Ole Miss
Miss St.
Fla.
UGA
UK
SC
Tennessee
Vandy
Notre Dame
Ohio St.
Michigan
Mich. St.
Iowa
Minn
Penn St.
Illinois
Indiana
Purdue
Wisc
Nebraska
Northwestern
USC
UCLA
Oregon
Oregon St.
Arizona
Arizona St.
Stanford
Cal
Utah
Colorado
Wash
Wash St.
WVU
Syracuse
Pitt
Rutgers

You add us to that group and have Vegas lay odds on who wins the NC in 5 years.

Guarantee you we would be in Top 30.

That means we have value that other BCS schools simply never will. That is why I hold out hope. Get BE membership and be competitive immediately. Let's have our Orange Bowl moment and then see how the chips fall. (and for your CP, if we do play in the Orange Bowl, please let it be against Ohio State, Fl St or Florida, not Pitt, Rutgers or USC)