Mobile-iken Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 ND and ACC agreement??? http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/spo...ges/6854899.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basketbill Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 was that the sound of the bigger east plan being reshaped.?? Like I said before, Depaul and Marquette need to be apart of eight BBall teams to make their conference move a slam dunk. If notre dame is out of the picture, there goes som revenue in NCAA credits, future and past, and in two years they are sitting with the other five bbal teams and no automatic bid. Perhaps the big east will offer SLU as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 but this is not good news for your big east hopes and dreams. here are the current big east teams: EAST Connecticut basketball Boston College football Providence basketball St. John's basketball Miami out going to the acc Virginia Tech out going to the acc WEST Syracuse football Pittsburgh football Notre Dame basketball only for now Seton Hall basketball Georgetown basketball only for the big east West Virginia football Rutgers football 5 football and counting notre dame 6 basketball schools. i.e. no more majority power for the basketball schools. and it is my understanding uconn is developing a football program, thus can probably be swayed to vote with the football schools if needed. ahhhh the dominos take a turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 the better perhaps is that the schools finally realize that the papal conference makes sense. if notre dame is out, i am betting a good chance the remaining big east schools decide we need football schools. maybe the old put cusa and big east together and reshuffle the deck plan comes back to life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted September 25, 2003 Share Posted September 25, 2003 UConn has I-A football this year and will be a full Big East member next year (one year ahead of the original schedule to ease the loss of Miami and Va Tech). You left out Villanova (I-AA Football). It is interesting because people in Boston were expecting the invite from the ACC to go to BC. Spurned in favor of ND has got to hurt the "triple eagle" I know ("triple eagles" are BC High, undergrad, and grad/prof graduates--I suspect there are some "triple billikens" around this board). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 ... because the big need is for the 12th team to play football and make the conference title game the $10 million reality they want it to be. Unless this phase in only includes the time up through 2005 ..... the conditions listed are ND's continued plight in football (it really hasn't been that great lately), the renewal of their NBC contract (which won't be much good if their record gets to that 1 and 7 discussed in another thread), and the fate of the BCS (which ND is the only independent member of). I also like the quote where the ACC schools are similar in vein academcially to Notre Dame ... yeah, right ..... Florida State, Miami and VaTech .... all the new-found ACC powers. Duke. Maryland. Wake. Virginia. I see them as all stuffing for the meat grinders in a couple years down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 http://espn.go.com/ncaa/news/2003/0925/1623519.html The Charlotte Observer report was denied by Notre Dame. I know the ACC wanted ND but apparently not the other way around. I was surprised by this because earlier in the summer ND denied having any conference interests (something they once again confirmed today). Doyel also works for ESPN so apparently they ran the story to get ratings. Pretty sorry really. This does not mean the Big East is stable because BC is the most talked about ACC 12th team and they have publicly expressed interest many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobile-iken Posted September 26, 2003 Author Share Posted September 26, 2003 He didn't completely deny it. "Heisler said the Irish remain committed to the Big East as a member in all other sports. He said he can't say if White has had conversations with the ACC about other sports, but they haven't had any talks involving football." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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