QUOTE (Ramius @ Sep 12 2008, 01:50 PM)

The big East needs to expand their football program to at least 10, possibly even 12 schools before they can truly rise as a "power" conference. I see a few potential teams that have the talent to move up fro C-USA, like Marshall or perhaps Southern Miss.
And fer chrissakes, ND needs to nut up and join the Big-10 already. 11 team conferences are gay. Each major conference should be *required* to have a conference title game. At least it would simplify the sham we call the BCS.
QUOTE (bartshan-83 @ Sep 13 2008, 10:07 AM)

Tell the Big 11 to drop a team then. ND is fine where we are.
For this Big Least talk, my alma mater is 2-0 and put a pounding on Virgina last night.... It would have helped also to not have other conferences raid coaches, ie Rodriguez. It'll take some time to recover from that. NCAA-wide, as evidenced last year especially, parity is taking hold.
But yes, they need to add 2 more strong football schools. If BC, Miami and VT weren't defecting bastards, we could actually have one of the strongest conferences. But they made their beds in the ACC... and see how that's worked for them!! Ha ha. UConn is starting a 10-game series with Notre Dame I think next year, which increases our national presence a little bit. I've long held that ND should join the Big East, even if it's a loose affiliation and they were allowed to set their own schedule. They're already in the Big East for most/all their other sports.
Lots of basic organization issues that college football has simply refused to deal with for a long time (then again, when they do try to deal with things we get crap like the BCS). One hopes that they see the need for more structure and organized operations and that a playoff is instituted. Short of that, we've got the current helter skelter and a seriously uneven playing field re: rankings/championship.