Stange. All the ECU people bitching about AQ and not one comment on this, an hour after I posted it?
Oh well.
(09-21-2011 06:27 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ]Stange. All the ECU people bitching about AQ and not one comment on this, an hour after I posted it?
Oh well.
What would like for us to say??? This information is not new....It was all over the place last night. Clearly the Big East has other plans so no real need to comment.
(09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
(09-21-2011 06:31 PM)ECU-DMB Fanatic Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:27 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ]Stange. All the ECU people bitching about AQ and not one comment on this, an hour after I posted it?
Oh well.
What would like for us to say??? This information is not new....It was all over the place last night. Clearly the Big East has other plans so no real need to comment.
I saw it posted at 6:11PM today. I didn't know they had applied until today. I knew they wanted to go, but didn't think they'd officially requested.
I think ECU should ask TCU what they think of the Big East right now. I don't see how the Big East doesn't lose at least 1 of their remaining 6, so why apply?
ESPN posted it this evening, but there was a CBS article about it last night.
Yea apparently the BE isn't too interested in the application. They are fools.
(09-21-2011 06:59 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]ESPN posted it this evening, but there was a CBS article about it last night.
wheres that article trying to find it
(09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
ECU should hope The Big East rejects them, I think the Big East is toast.
(09-21-2011 07:20 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
ECU should hope The Big East rejects them, I think the Big East is toast.
Why should we hope that? Got any better ideas for us to have an AQ bid, besides some pie in the sky merger that isn't happening?
(09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
That may be exactly the plan here. A public rejection of ECU while at the same time trying to get Villanova in might break the rest of the schools away from the bb onlies.
(09-21-2011 07:22 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 07:20 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
ECU should hope The Big East rejects them, I think the Big East is toast.
Why should we hope that? Got any better ideas for us to have an AQ bid, besides some pie in the sky merger that isn't happening?
If WVU or UL get an invite to any other AQ conference they are gone. I figure the Big12 wants to keep 12 teams BYU gets them to 11, I figure WVU or UL are their top choices, IF TX stays in. If the SEC picks one from the ACC then UCONN is likely the replacemnt. I seriously doubt any Big East team turns down an offer from another AQ conference.
This dude just seems hellbent on destroying the BE's AQ status. If I were the C-USA's commish, I'd be in talks with the BCS right now. Not all teams are going to be asked to join an AQ conference and, with the loss of the BE's AQ, I think the BCS would add another one. It probably would have been the MWC, but they were screwed by BYU, TCU, and Utah. They're going to be a mediocre conference with BSU dominating every year (boring). The C-USA could make the case for an AQ, provided they get commitments from UL, Cincy, WVU, TCU, etc., assuming they don't go elsewhere. Even Rutgers. Yes Rutgers, I know you don't want the C-USA now, but with an AQ, all the sudden it's not so bad. It seems clear that Marinatto just doesn't give two sh*ts about about football. Kinda sucks for UL, Cincy, and TCU, who came to the BE because of the AQ. Talk about sleazy.
(09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
Very true.. if ECU's application is out there and they're rejected, the current 5 will be on the phones looking for someone else AQ to take them.
(09-21-2011 07:40 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ]This dude just seems hellbent on destroying the BE's AQ status. If I were the C-USA's commish, I'd be in talks with the BCS right now. Not all teams are going to be asked to join an AQ conference and, with the loss of the BE's AQ, I think the BCS would add another one. It probably would have been the MWC, but they were screwed by BYU, TCU, and Utah. They're going to be a mediocre conference with BSU dominating every year (boring). The C-USA could make the case for an AQ, provided they get commitments from UL, Cincy, WVU, TCU, etc., assuming they don't go elsewhere. Even Rutgers. Yes Rutgers, I know you don't want the C-USA now, but with an AQ, all the sudden it's not so bad. It seems clear that Marinatto just doesn't give two sh*ts about about football. Kinda sucks for UL, Cincy, and TCU, who came to the BE because of the AQ. Talk about sleazy.
this stuff going on now is dirtier than college recruiting.
(09-21-2011 07:30 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 07:22 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 07:20 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:31 PM)Rebel Wrote: [ -> ] (09-21-2011 06:29 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]Fear of rejection.
If the BE rejects ECU, it should be clear to WVU, Rutgers, and USF that they're not serious about keeping their AQ status or college football.
ECU should hope The Big East rejects them, I think the Big East is toast.
Why should we hope that? Got any better ideas for us to have an AQ bid, besides some pie in the sky merger that isn't happening?
If WVU or UL get an invite to any other AQ conference they are gone. I figure the Big12 wants to keep 12 teams BYU gets them to 11, I figure WVU or UL are their top choices, IF TX stays in. If the SEC picks one from the ACC then UCONN is likely the replacemnt. I seriously doubt any Big East team turns down an offer from another AQ conference.
Which Big 12? I keed, I keed.