Whenever the discussion turns to northeastern football I keep being reminded of how all of these programs all had different priorities and why these made it practically impossible to have a viable northeastern-based football conference.

Penn State thinks it's above everyone else and only really regard Ohio State and Michigan as peers

Pitt thinks it's above Penn State, even though they don't have nearly the fan base as Penn State

Syracuse thinks it's above both UConn and Rutgers, even though they're a few miles from Canada. I guess that qualifies as "above"

The northeast private schools that are too small to host football rightly focus on basketball but Villanova can't seem to get with the program fully. Yet, they find it convenient to block Temple from joining fully in all sports.

Nobody really wants to have West Virginia in the conference, except maybe Pitt and even that's not certain as the academic snobs are in charge at Pitt

How are Memphis, Tulane, TCU or Houston "Eastern" in any way?

Notre Dame is just too good to be in a conference in general. Conferences are beneath them

What I like about the Big Ten and the SEC is they understand the importance of working together and advance mutual goals. As opposed to the northeastern programs who are in it for themselves and don't care about the other programs. I would rather stick with the Big Ten, thank you very much. Maybe Pitt can join in the future, as they fit the criteria. Otherwise, I'm fine either way.