Strike one for Aresco. No Orange Bowl tie-in for the Big East

"The Atlantic Coast Conference and Orange Bowl are finalizing a deal that would pit the ACC champion against either Notre Dame, an SEC or Big Ten team starting after the 2014 regular season, sources told ESPN."

http://espn.go.com/college-football...tic-coast-conference-working-deal-orange-bowl

Looks like Plan B for BE bowl tie ins. Anyone know what Plab B is?

This was in the works before Aresco was even a known candidate so how exactly is this on him?

From last week:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...midweek-notes-big-east-hoping-for-orange-bowl


The Big East makeover won't necessarily end with conference realignment and expansion. The conference hopes to remain relevant by grabbing a spot in the Orange Bowl.

“We're working hard on some access,” said an official who did not want to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the talks. “I've been talking to some people regarding the Orange Bowl. I think they're fair-minded people to gain some measure of access. Ultimately, I think we've got a shot to do that.”

The OB was never happening. The loss of the Auto-bid is directly linked to the the BCS bowls, especially the OB not wanting BE teams and there woeful travelling history, though I still think we would have packed the place.

We are reverting to the old bowl alliance system, for those who remember.

That was decided long before he arrived. Nobody was going to make that happen. Calling it a strike vs Aresco is really dumb. Monumentally dumb.

Then what do you call the Big East official who was still working on getting the Big East access just one week ago? Monumentally dumb? Incredibly naive? Stupid?

a failed miracle worker...if you are the ACC why would you grant the conference you are trying to destroy access to your contract bowl?

A liar. Or a publicist, but I repeat myself.

If Edsall had installed a passing game this never would have happened. Damn Edsall.

If only the commissioner could sell a Big East football team over an SEC or Big 10 team to a bowl game. I bet the Orange Bowl hates having 20,000 Michigan or Tennessee fans show up - don't they know Cincinnati might be 3 slots higher in the computer poll some season?

Why would the Orange bowl consider the BE when they don't even have a tv deal in place, there's still a lot of re-alignment possibilities out there and the BE is still very unstable.

Let's see how the BE does next year, we may be able to create out own bowl, not likely, but who knows.

No way is the Aresco's fault this is all Swofford.

It will be the SEC#6, or B1G#5 vs. ACC#1. And I won't be watching.

The BE is on life support and the plug is hanging from the socket. Until those with their heads in the sand recognize this reality, there will always be plenty of excuses. This applies equally to Herbst and Manuel. Until they get something done that substantially improves UConn's position ( either through the BE or by leaving) they have done nothing. They get paid to deliver. The rest is just BS excuse making and feel good self delusion.

This is pretty much where I'm at. We wont know for sure until the BE TV deals worked out, but I'm starting to have serious doubts myself.

Patience lads, patience. What looks like a doomed conference today will look a lot better once the dust settles(new teams in & conference re-alignment subsides) and everyone starts playing each other for a few years. The Texas teams WILL improve their programs, so will the Florida teams. UConn will improve, so will Temple, Cincy and Louisville. You just have to give it time to develop and we don't have a choice anyways so lets just make the best of it. So we don't play in the Orange Bowl. Who's to say that a few years down the road we don't play in a new bowl in the Cowboys new stadium or Giants stadium? Who says that they stop at 4 for the playoff system? If they go to 8, which is quite likely, that will be the new goal. I'm sure Coach P and Ward Manuel will have us playing some of our traditional rivals in the future(Cuse, Pitt, BC, possibly Penn St). Our fan base will grow and so will the traveling crowd which makes us more appealing to teams like Michigan and Ohio St. Right now the only thing we need to worry about is winning football games and traveling well. We do both of those and everything else will work out just fine. Patience please.

The Lone Star Bowl at Cowboys Stadium. The best available Texas school vs the best available Big East school. Just a thought.

The Big East RIP.