(02-02-2012 09:22 PM)igoe4EastCarolina Wrote:  nothing to see here...

(02-02-2012 04:00 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  I go dig up one old thread and you guys dig up the best of the old threads. I never knew the whole story of mongo/ecuholefan4ever. Haven't been posting long enough on any of the message boards. Glad to see I am not the only one with issue with OTM either.

(02-06-2012 10:15 AM)NoQuarter08 Wrote:   I'm way too new to know what most of this is about but wow... great thread. That said I love the way Mark runs PI. Can't say I have any sypathy for a closet or open Tarhole lover though.

(02-24-2012 12:04 PM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  Wow....that was kind of freaky to read after all these years

(02-25-2012 12:40 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  WOW..... Went back through my 2006 posts during that time.

Trip down memory lane / Nightmare on Elm Street.

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As odd as it might seem, some of the undertones in this thread I think have fueled some things to be the way they are now when you look at csnbbs.com vs. ECU Rivals vs. BYB vs. HTC.

(11-13-2006 11:36 AM)NT75 Wrote:  ugh!!!!!!! B*** L****

Most GT fans won't even say his name or acknowledge he exists. He absolutely ran the program into the ground.

(11-13-2006 03:40 PM)NT75 Wrote:  Actually, there is a vocal minority of GT fans wanting to return to the SEC, due to the ACC's .... hmm.... "less than generous actions" toward GT. If you know why GT left the SEC, you'll know that opinion is about as popular as ECU to I-AA. That being said, we don't berate those who think that, be we do debate them.


And FWIW, ECU isn't a good fit in the ACC and never was. A big motivator for expansion was breaking the dominance of the T.R. mafia. Letting ECU in creates that problem all over again. Also, I'm not sure off the top of my head, but isn't ECU a Teir 3 according to USN&WR? If so, that's not high enough. The ACC has a ridiculously high academic standard. People often assume the ACC wants to be like the SEC. That's wrong. The ACC wants to be the Pac-10 on steroids (strong athletics at all levels AND academics).

I also don't think ECU to I-AA is a good move.... but I do recognize that ECU is out in the middle of nowhere in terms of conference allies. There is no true good fit for them in any I-A conference other than the ACC. The Big East would be "good enough" ... but if your closest rival is in Morgantown ...... it's hard to to generate interest every week. After the allure of a BCS conference wore off... tell me how excited you'd be to play UCONN .... or Rutgers .... or Syracuse .... or USF....