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Message: [QUOTE="KryHavok, post: 5353898, member: 12905"] I hear you, but eastern coast history is not the same as northeastern identity (which is what the Big East represents). From 1921 to 1951 Maryland was in the Southern Conference (with a bunch of other ACC tobacco road schools), independent in 1952, and ACC from 1953 to 2013 before the call-up to BIG. So Maryland and Syracuse played each other in football 36 times compared to 14 times for UConn-Syracuse...yet UConn-Syracuse have played each other in basketball 95 times since 1956 (compared to 10 for Maryland-Syracuse). Let's face it, since joining the conference in 1979 UConn's basketball (men and women) has been the face of Big East the last 25+ years. If you would ask any Maryland fan do they identify with the Northeast and you're likely to get crab seasoning jammed in your eyes. Shizzle gives much more thought to his arrangements than this guy did...putting UConn in the Metro reeks of insolence and obtuseness. As for putting Penn State in the Big East...I can only wish that the powers that were had let that happen. All that said, the listings in that tweet remind of a NCAAF booklet my older brother had during the mid/late 80's where had the team listings and games. Conferences were easier to follow back then before unholy alliances ruled the landscape. [/QUOTE]