Big East Basketball Only Schools Meeting On Monday

[Villacats]

It's not going to happen no matter how much you are intrigued by it.  I linked this in another thread, but if this accounting is true, this is exactly the reason why they don't want bball schools in their conference - just more voices to listen to who aren't on the same page.

http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=515398

"Until this past year, Pitt was 100 percent committed to the future of the Big East and I would argue that no president has fought harder for the league than has Nordenberg. However I would say that the school's belief in the league and its future began wane last spring over the whole Villanova debacle.

Adding VU for football just was - and remains - among the very the dumbest ideas in the history of major college athletics and I think it shocked, alarmed and disappointed Pitt that so many other schools fought so hard to implement it and that so many other football schools were willing to leak it to the press (cough, Louisville, cough South Florida) in an effort to pressure Pitt into capitulating. Incidentally I believe that West Virginia and Rutgers hold the exact same view on the matter but you will have to ask them.

Pitt wanted to add Central Florida but was willing to settle for East Carolina and maybe even Houston. However as the process dragged along it became clear that some of the football schools and just about all of the basketball schools - minus ND, which always manages to stay above the fray in these matters - were not going to allow any package of teams in the league that did not include Villanova. Pitt (and West Virginia and Rutgers) just couldn't understand that mentality and that caused a deep rift. Honestly until this morning I had always been led to believe that SU was on the other side of this issue but obviously that was a misperception on my part."

Colossal pile of BS from an avowed Nova hater.

Although I guess if I was a Pitt fan, I'd be looking to shft blame too.

[GGGG]

OK....but his sentiment regarding Nova football is shared by many.