I would like to clarify that I personally do not think Edsall having one foot out the door had much of an impact on the result of that game if any. I was just explaining what I thought the post from the first page was about.
The conference re-alignment crap has turned me off the college sports in general. I still peak in at UCONN of course but what is there to get excited about. We are in Conference USA, basketball is going to suffer as well. ESPN made a mistake by destroying the Big East. CT and NJ fans are not going to all of sudden be interested in BC, Cuse, Pitt, etc. Instead we will just go back to investing our time in Pro sports. ESPN hurt themselves more than anything else by destroying the BE. No one gives a about BC, Cuse or Pitt other than their alumni and a few local fans. After WVU ESPN left the next 3 largest and most rabid fan bases in the BE (UCONN, Ville, RU). Unless we go the route of Boise and Louisville when they were in CUSA and by that I mean heavy JUCO recruiting and transfers to win games....if we don't do that the program is going to hit a rough patch. Middle of the pack in CUSA is not a fun place to be.
the more i think about it the title of this thread is ticking me off. by saying "further burt the BE" is implies we've hurt the BE before which is tough to fathom considering we've probably been one of the more successful teams in the NBE. so we got creamed by an awesome Oklahoma team, Clemson let WVU put up 70 on them last year (a WVU team that wasn't close to the quality of team Oklahoma had that year, not even in the ballpark). anyone that thinks we've done less than expected or ever hurt the BE can pound salt. we've certainly done more to help the conference than the two losers that are leaving after this season, even prior to their departure.
OU had two pick six's. Both of them were dropped by our WRs before being caught and returned by OU cornerbacks. QB play wasn't the problem that night, dropped passes, and their up tempo wide open offense were too much to overcome.
Seeing as I have zero loyalty to the Big East as it is soon to be formulated, I couldn't care less about how our winning the conference is perceived.
I'll go one step further than that; regardless of my feelings for ANY conference, I couldn't care less about how UConn's winning the conference is perceived!! Even if we were to be in the Big10, and the SEC folks say, "Ha! UConn won it!", I would say, "You're damned right, we did!!!" It's all about the national flag blue and white, baby. Nothing else matters...
The problem wasn't UConn winning the Big East. The problem was a middle-of-the-road 8-4 team won the Big East.
