Big East vs ACC
filed in NCAA on May.20, 2003
This whole episode between the Big East and the ACC with Miami in the middle is getting a little nauseating. Now that Miami, BC, and Syracuse have all been invited to join the ACC the Big East is starting to fight back. Mike Tranghese of the Big East is appealing to Miami to remember tradition and stick with the Big East tradition. Who knows what is going to happen. But we may be witnessing the death of the Big East. I really feel bad for the rest of the conference because it seems that Miami has all of the power in this situation and will probably just screw the rest of the conference.
Does anybody remember if the situation was this crazy when the Big 8 became the Big XII? It didn’t seem to be that big of an issue at the time. Rather just the way things should be. Of course the Big 8 were not the ones who were left standing alone in the corner dureing that transition.
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May 20th, 2003 on 12:59 pm
I certainly didn’t remember this kind of national uproar. With a little digging I found this article recounting the history of the Old Southwest Conference.
It looks like the old SWC was more of a sinking ship than anything else. It had been slowly dieing since pro-sports started to take attendance away from the it’s two biggest markets in Dallas and Houston (TCU and Rice, respectively) in the 1960′s.
With the four strongest Texas teams looking to get out of a one way ticket to small time college football, a match up with the Big 8 was the perfect solution.
May 20th, 2003 on 1:32 pm
I remember the Big 12 expansion much like Kerry described. I think the SWC was struggling to stay afloat and the four Texas teams were looking to move out. There wasn’t much uproar because other conferences were happy to take on the other remaining teams. I think the difference is like that of breaking up a corporation and selling the pieces versus a hostile takeover from an outside source. I think it will be interesting to see how this all pans out. This could not only impact the ACC and Big East, but the SEC, Big 10, Mountain West, and Conference USA as well (as well as some smaller conferences, I’m sure).
May 20th, 2003 on 6:34 pm
obviously the big east just wants what it can’t have, it had miami and never played with it now that the acc wants to play with it the big east is like waaaaahhhh, gimme my miami back u big meenie.
June 11th, 2003 on 2:26 pm
The Big East was initially started as Basketball Conference. There was no BE for football. They brought in Miami to stop those schools who play footall from leaving. Look at the original makeup of the BE. I say let them go! And you know what? The ACC is not known as a football conference either! When you think of the ACC you think of BB. The ACC will not emerge as a Football conference power. Mark my words.