Dan you appear to be a Boise guy. UNderstand that around here, you will run into people like Husky Hawk that are basketball oriented people. To the people that have grown up as fans of UCOnn athletics as a big east basketball power in the past 20 years, and don't have a football understanding nationally, of what has happened in the past 20-30 years, or where UConn has really come from and where we are..... the current big east moving forward is a disgusting frankenstein of a monster, and they'd rather be in the ACC with no control whatsoever over our own media rights.
Sorry - huskyhawk, for using you as an example.....but if the shoe fits...?
Now, in reality, the concept of Boise playing in the big east? Well i find it really ironic, there was a lot of discussion a while back, by uconn fans around ehre, about if UConn should be pursuing the likes of Boise for scheduling........lots of back and forth. Before any of the madness. I personally am excited for the competition.
As far as the college football post season goes, to my knowledge, all of the discussions that led to Boise and the Big EAst becoming partners, as well as all the other additions, was done with the full knowledge, and anticipation, that the BCS AQ and all of that as it existed in 2011, would be gone by 2014.
So, to me, the BCS and it's reorganization, it's non-issue for membership moving forward, we all anticipated this. The Big EAst is now a national conference, and the likes of UConn and Boise are part of it. I gave a rundown of the history of the ocnference and northeast college football, that also involved Yale on a different thread. Take the time to read if you will.
The conference leadership, from 1979, up until 2011, was very much held in the hands of the parochial school leadership that founded out the Big East out of the reorganization of college athletic departments in the northeast USA in the 1970s.
I firmly believe that leadership, from the conference offices to the various university presidents and councils has changed paradigms completely in the past year, as their basketball creation on the east coast, nearly died, from the way they operated it from the mid 1980s until 2011.
I look forward to the success of the big east conference in the future, under new leadership.