(12-19-2011 08:24 AM)NoQuarter08 Wrote:  Nothing ECU does other than stay in top 25 will help our cause with the BE. We don't match their profile since our campus isn't in a large urban area. To us it's a really dumb reason to lock us out but it is their main reason. Attendance doesn't matter to them and there's nothing else we can say to explain our loyal following and interest in NC. The Big East doesn't get it, will not get it and I'm still amazed that VT was ever in that conference.

Simply saying that someone who disagrees with you "doesn't get it" disrespects the other party. That's the arrogance that many of us resent among so many ECU fans.

Whether it's right or wrong, the Big East is entitled to map out whatever strategy they see fit & to decide for themselves who are the schools with whom they have the most in common. It's only a sense of entitlement that has so many ECU fans saying "We belong" & criticizing the Big East for not agreeing with them.

Every conference has its own sense of what schools are the right fit for them The Pac-12 decided that Colorado was the right choice for them even though BYU or UNLV would have made more geographic sense. The SEC decided that Missouri was the right fit for them even though West Virginia would have been a better fit geographically & culturally.

I don't understand why ECU fans think that the constant barrage of Big East criticism would make them more attractive to the conference nor do I understand why they would even want to be associated in any way with a conference that they so despise, deplore, & denigrate. Why not simply say that we'll each go our own way since it's obviously not working out between us & each go our own way but still be friends?