Hey, did you hear about the lawsuit the West Virginia Mounaineers are raising against the Big East over the matter of when WVU will be allowed to pull its athletic programs from the conference and place them in the Big 12 (full PDF available at Big East Coast Bias, by the way)? Yep, it's happening!
The suit was filed Monday in Monongalia, West Virginia by the WVU Board of Governors on behalf of the school. The core issue: the 2008 bylaws, which would require the Eers to remain in the Big East for another 27 months.
West Virginia contends the Big East has been unstable for more than a decade due to its football/non-football split, non-football schools have the power to enforce football-specific rules onto football schools and the conference is presently collapsing. These things are all true. The suit claims that the Big East is in such "serious jeopardy" that WVU "had no choice but to accept" the Big 12" invitation.
In addition to UConn's moves toward the ACC, WVU alleges the Louisville Cardinals, Rutgers Scarlet Knights and Cincinnati Bearcats have been in touch with the ACC, Big 12, SEC and Big Ten. We knew about Cincy and Louisville with the Big 12 and assumed Rutgers had talked with the ACC and Big Ten, but what's the SEC doing here?
If that part is true, then literally every remaining Big East football school has at least sort of tried to leave the Big East except for that long-time bastion of everything Big East, South Florida.
For more on the Mountaineers, visit West Virginia blog The Smoking Musket and Big East Coast Bias. And stay tuned here for more conference realignment news.
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Best solution
UConn wants into the ACC, Rutgers wants into the ACC or Big Ten, Louisville and Cincinnati want into the Big 12. South Florida wants to go wherever someone will let them. The best solution is to dissolve the Big East football conference and let the Big East continue on as a Basketball and Olympic sports league, possibly adding other “basketball-only” schools from the Atlantic 10 or MAAC.
by Timothy Brian Padden on Oct 31, 2011 5:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Seriously Jason Kirk, enough with the attitude.
If you don’t like conference realignment then stop covering it and let someone else do it who can give an update without a whiny comment about it each time.
People that are annoyed with conference realignment are probably avoiding reading stories about it constantly.
Your readers read your updates on the process because they are interested in what is going on.
Understand your audience!
I am facinated by it, and it actually gives me something interesting to read about during the week when there are no football games.
by Persi W on Oct 31, 2011 6:04 PM EDT reply actions
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