Scott Van Pelt has been ripping the new Big East on his show. SVP makes a great point though, the Big East was established for basketball; not football. Now you can truly blame football for the destruction of the Big East. SVP said, "how can the seven Catholic schools get excited about playing UCF, SMU, and Tulane instead of Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, and WVU?"

Exactly Owl. Trojan Horse.

(12-13-2012 10:41 AM)NBPirate Wrote:  It actually did according to McMurphy......

He's off base there. Saying Tulane killed the Big East is akin to saying the Hitler Youth (called on by Hitler to defend Berlin from the advancing Allies) lost WWII for Germany.

(12-13-2012 11:34 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  Scott Van Pelt has been ripping the new Big East on his show. SVP makes a great point though, the Big East was established for basketball; not football. Now you can truly blame football for the destruction of the Big East. SVP said, "how can the seven Catholic schools get excited about playing UCF, SMU, and Tulane instead of Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, and WVU?"

I'll give it another spin. The basketball schools killed the Big East. Football wanted to expand, which would have provided stability; and the basketball schools nixed it until it was too late and they had to add as a knee-jerk reaction.

Basketball's reluctance to add pushed football schools to look for greener pastures and put BE football in survival mode. Ultimately, basketball didn't like the moves and left.

(12-13-2012 12:34 PM)99Tiger Wrote:  

(12-13-2012 11:34 AM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  Scott Van Pelt has been ripping the new Big East on his show. SVP makes a great point though, the Big East was established for basketball; not football. Now you can truly blame football for the destruction of the Big East. SVP said, "how can the seven Catholic schools get excited about playing UCF, SMU, and Tulane instead of Louisville, Syracuse, Pitt, and WVU?"

I'll give it another spin. The basketball schools killed the Big East. Football wanted to expand, which would have provided stability; and the basketball schools nixed it until it was too late and they had to add as a knee-jerk reaction.

Basketball's reluctance to add pushed football schools to look for greener pastures and put BE football in survival mode. Ultimately, basketball didn't like the moves and left.

I'm with you 99.. the basketball schools brought this on themselves, but I will say IMO, this started when they started the hybrid model. They were trying to get the best of both worlds and shot themselves in the foot in doing so.

(12-13-2012 11:32 AM)07owl Wrote:  Tulane was just our trojan horse

Sure was....

But which team is the Sun Belt's trojan horse within CUSA?
We need to act now!

(12-13-2012 11:31 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  

(12-13-2012 11:32 AM)07owl Wrote:  Tulane was just our trojan horse

Sure was....

But which team is the Sun Belt's trojan horse within CUSA?
We need to act now!

Which SBC team was a winner?

At least La Tech from the WAC has done something.

(12-13-2012 11:30 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(12-13-2012 11:30 AM)SouthernPirate55 Wrote:  this sucks. We tried forever to get into the BE. Most of us even said that the BE would split before they let ECU in. Well they finally let us in, actually split, and we still don't get credit for bringing them down. We get no respect, no respect I tell ya.

I laffed.