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[QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 2566000, member: 7492"]
If I may interject here: The BigEast "folded" and is why ND, Louisville had to find greener pastures. Due to the Catholic 7 (DePaul, [B]Georgetown[/B], Marquette, [B]Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall [/B]and[B] Villanova)[/B] who didn't have D1 football, didn't want D1 football, they split away from the Big East, bought the name and the Big East became the AAC with Central Florida, Cincinnati, [B]Connecticut[/B], Houston, Louisville, Memphis, South Florida, Southern Methodist and Temple. Former members Louisville (after one year in AAC), Notre Dame, [B]Pittsburgh[/B] and [B]Syracuse [/B]headed to the ACC, and Rutgers headed to the Big Ten. [B]Boston College[/B] was 9th original member, who did leave the Big East for the ACC before the breakup and probably was the catalyst in making the breakup inevitable.  The irony here is BC, rarely competes well in any of the sports in the ACC and even with getting money from the Conference, their sports programs are poor by every stretch of a barometer when compared to the rest of the schools in the ACC.
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