Exactly, Rutgers sucked at football forever, then they had 1 good season and got a B1G invite. Louisville sucked at football forever. Won the Orange Bowl and they receive an invite to the ACC. Syracuse and Pitt have historically decent programs, and went 8-5 the year prior to receiving ACC invites.
Not clear that the Catholic-predominant, no-football Big East would even want us. Maybe MAC for football and A-10 for basketball?...one thing is sure: conference realignment sucks!
The furthest east team is West Virginia. The location is the proximity of the schools for travel formCincy and Memphis. Now we would chomp at the bit to get out of purgatory and join but all of those schools would have to go to the east coast, an extra couple hours in the air, and that's for a lot of sports. Your argument is that they get east coast exposure and recruiting. Well that's maybe not an easy sell to the AD's of the schools. I don't think that football wise those schools are light years ahead of us(except this year), and academically we are ahead of them so I think we are a great fit for them. I hope we get to do it but all 3 schools dilute their football. It would be a supreme kick in the nuts if they get in and we don't, a loss to Yale will seem like a party.
