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This week in the Big East Conference, Navy arrived and Greg Schiano departed. With all due respect to our future servicemen and women from Annapolis, that’s a net loss for the league.
Another one.
Schiano was an 11-year Big East guy. He was the first coach to win eight games in a season at Rutgers since the 1970s, elevating the program far beyond its traditional ceiling. He was a New Jersey native who somehow turned down Miami and Michigan. He was on the cusp of signing a huge recruiting class that would cement his future at the school.
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Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia remain on their way out, and how that sits with football's Bowl Championship Series— and TV networks — remains to be seen. Now, the Big East Conference is shopping for a ... more »
Nobody knows how it happened, but there's someone actually in charge of college football now. Probably something to do with a reanimated Teddy Roosevelt. First things first, players are now to be paid. We're installing a ... more »
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