big-east-expansion Stories - On the Banks
Big East football should vote no
This complaint is likely all for naught - if Tom Luicci is reporting that the Big East plans to double its football exit fee and invite six new members, then that certainly is what going to happen barring any last-minute setbacks. However, that does not mean that the six remaining Big East football...
College athletics expansion involves many factors
Steve Politi thinks the Rutgers football program deserves some of the blame for the athletic department still seeming to be stuck in limbo (unless the Big XII comes calling) in conference reshuffling. It's correct that if Rutgers hadn't underachieved the past few years, they would be in a much...
Standing athwart history, yelling stuff
You'd be hard-pressed to find a Rutgers fan that did not think Mike Tranghese's interview on WFAN today with Mike Francesa was anything other than the conflation of two of the most bloviated, self-important figures in all of sports; mind-melding in a perfect symmetry of factual errors,...
Should Rutgers join the Big Ten or the ACC?
There shouldn't have been any doubt in the minds of Rutgers fans that athletic director Tim Pernetti would rise to the occasion, and that's exactly what he did at a 5 pm press conference earlier. Probably the critical quote there concerns how Pernetti and Rutgers were not blindsided at all by what...
The Big East's treachery and lies
John Marinatto did not know that Pittsburgh and Syracuse were leaving for the ACC until Brett McMurphy told him, but that did not stop Marinatto (or a close underling) from feeding McMurphy more supposedly anonymous quotes, as he has for months. What's most troubling to Big East officials is that...
Plotting a Big East coup
Villanova's attempt to join the Big East conference for football has led to a bit of a stalemate in conference offices. Villanova needs the support of six of the eight football programs to join, and may not be in any way close to that number, as Big East football schools see adding Villanova as a...
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