Another piece of big east football history.

[Carl Spackler]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140740/index.htm


SI article from August 1991.


The college football association.

How many of you young uns have heard of it? The CFA. It existed until 1997. The same year that UConn got the official invite to upgrade to 1-A football and join a major conference that had it's own broadcasting rights.......


Understand your history, so you don't make the same mistakes in the future.

 

[Carl Spackler]

BTW: the guy that ran the College Football Association from 1980-1997.

Chuck Neinas.

 

[whaler11]

When Penn State and the Big Ten finally worked out their deal, it created much anxiety about scheduling and bowl affiliations at Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Boston College, the only Big East schools that played Division I-A football. "Those three felt they might have to leave for another league to protect their football bases," says Mike Tranghese, the commissioner of the Big East.
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They must be having some second thoughts in State College about the wisdom of joining the Big Ten instead of waiting for the Big East.

If they did they were awfully wrong.

The best of the others—Louisville, Southern Mississippi, Tulane, Memphis State, Cincinnati and East Carolina—will see a further erosion of their identities and will have problems in scheduling and grabbing a share of the TV and bowl revenue.

Indeed, the SWC and the Big Eight fear that the Big Ten, which will have an unwieldy 11 teams with the addition of Penn State, might look to expand by adding one or more teams from their leagues. The Big Ten might be interested in inviting either Missouri or Kansas to jump from the Big Eight. In addition, both Texas and Texas A&M have considered options that include moving either to the SEC, which would then have 14 teams, or to the Pac-10, which is also in an expansionist frame of mind.

Well the Big 8 didn't think of Nebraska. Although that paragraph contains the first correct prediction in history with A&M.