The Big East. Oh, The Horror...

Watching he Big East Commissioner try to argue that they were still a viable league tonight on the, "shit storm" that was the Rutgers v. South Florida football game was pitiful. I felt sorry for the guy.  But only for a second.

That league has SUCKED for SO long, that I feel no remorse at their eminent demise.  And they, because of the TVs they commanded, kept their BCS automatic qualification for so many years when the only teams that had a prayer of playing for a mythical National Championship were West Virginia and Pitt.  And Pitt sucks so bad this year they lost to Youngstown State!  Hell they sucked the year the Utes clobbered them in the Fiesta Bowl.

So, here's how I see things breaking down in the next few years.

Notre Dame goes to the ACC, full time.  Yes, in football too.  It won't take them long to figure out that winning the ACC, which is not a very tough football conference (Duke?  Wake Forrest?  North Carolina?  Maryland?) and getting into a BCS Bowl Game is a LOT easier than playing the, Murderer's Row of a schedule they play now, which this year includes, Michigan State, Michigan, Miami, Stanford and USC, and having to do well enough to finish 6th or higher in the polls at the end of the season.

Let's face it, once you get past Florida State and Clemson, there is not ONE school in that whole conference who's a threat every year, after year, after year, to get a shot at a national championship.

I'm talking to you, Georgia Tech.  You got, "Bitch Slapped" by Utah in two Bowl Games in the last six years.

The Big East is about to implode.  They are picking up Memphis, Houston, SMU, Navy and UFC for crying out loud!  When you read this, how many of you know what city in Florida, the University of Central Florida is in?  There are football fans IN Florida who don't.

And they are taking Boise State and San Diego State for football only.  And I think BYU needs to make a move RIGHT now to get in on this.  Trust me, Zoobies, this is your only hope.

You have to throw your rope to the Big East, for football only like the other western schools.  After all you already have a conference affiliation for all your other sports with those high school gym sized schools in, what is it called?  The Jesus Conference?

And hope they take you, just cause they are in such bad shape right now, that they will take anyone with a stadium, and TV market bigger than a school from the MAC!  Oh, wait.  They took, Temple back after kicking them out years ago.  So I might be wrong.

You might get passed over for Central Michigan.  They have the Saginaw/Bay City/Midland tri-city TV market.  Just sayin...  All you REALLY have is Provo and South Jordan.

But you gotta remember that you have to give up your revenue from that lucrative, BYUTV thing.  After all, I know you're getting rich with all those food storage ads, but still.  The rest of the league isn't going to let you keep THAT without sharing.

And for the few years this league stays in operation, very few, you better win it a couple of times.  Because when it dies, and it will, you better hope you're in a place to get invited to a BCS AQ conference.

But you won't be.  You will be cast adrift in the college football world, because no one wants a cranky, self indulgent, self important, religious school.  The Big 12 already has one in Baylor.  And if DEMOCRAT, Ann Richards hadn't threatened to kill the deal when she was Governor of Texas and the SWC broke up?  Baylor wouldn't be in.

She went to Baylor.  The Southern Baptist "University".

You might have to beg to get back into the Mountain West Conference.  But I don't think they will have you.  You might get a shot at Conference USA.  They HAD religious schools, but TCU went to the Big 12, and SMU is going to the Big East.

I think they are the ones to get the automatic qualifier to the BCS when the Big East falls apart.  But if they do?  They will be the lowest rated conference with AQ.  So you will be playing the guys you wish you were for the last ten years.

The BCS Busters.  Good luck with that.