Big East
Even as the conference they call the Pac-12, as in Pacific, claimed this week that it was not expanding into Texas, Oklahoma, and/or the Bahamas, the convulsive realignment of major college football continued to be described as "fluid."
Most swamps are.
Doubtless you noticed that Pitt and Syracuse scurried onto firmer footing in the hot muck over the weekend, joining the Atlantic Coast Conference to a competing cacophony of condemnation and endorsement, with no less prominent an oracle than Joe Paterno himself saying "good move," then adding somewhat cryptically that "I don't know where we're going to end up."
That set off a clarion call of sources trying to tweet Penn State and Notre Dame into the ACC as well, all while West Virginia was refusing to say...
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Just as the rumbling rumors of Florida State moving from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 had begun to hush, here came the Saturday afternoon bombshell. "How do you not look into that option?" asked Andy Haggard,... more »
Forget about money for a moment. Forget about brands and television markets and geographical footprints. Forget about rumors and speculation, and non-denial denials and multiple voices saying multiple things, and just focus on... more »
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