Syracuse 'Might' Just Take You Up On That, John
by Sean Keeley on Feb 14, 2012 4:55 PM EST
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PrintFor months now, John Marinatto has been all like, "The bylaws are the bylaws are the bylaws." But now that he's loaded up his coffers with storied football programs like San Diego State and Memphis, he's all like "Bylaws schmylaws."
Big East Commissioner John Marinatto says his league "might be open to a discussion" about allowing Syracuse and Pittsburgh to join the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2013 football season.
"But given the strength and speed of our expansion efforts, I think our board might be open to a discussion about 2013," Marinatto said in a telephone interview.
In other words, Marinatto was full of it the entire time with the whole hardline act, just as we suspected.
With West Virginia flying the coop, there's just no way he can honestly keep the Syracuse Orange and Pittsburgh Panthers in the Big East beyond next season. He knows that and about all he can do at this point is try to save as much face as possible, which, ain't much.
The dream of a one-season, 15-team, Big East mega-conference is almost dead but, hey, it sounded good at the time. And by good I mean legally-binding.
The real question for Syracuse is how we fill in our schedule in 2012. There's still a chance Boise is coming, which will solve the major issue. However, there's always this Rutgers two-fer offer as well. And SU still hasn't filled it's final non-con game (Hi Akron!).
We'll deal with 2012 as it comes, happy in the knowledge that it's only a matter of time before we're out by the 2013 season.
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Epic failure
Cannot believe the ADs in what’s left of the real Big East don’t run that guy out of town. I guess even they don’t want to go to Providence.
That's the problem. If the AD's didn't want him, he'd be gone
Marinatto is only following marching orders given to him. Trouble is they’re coming from Seton Hall, St Johns, and Providence
"Flying the COOP"...
As in chicken coop… Living here in ACC country I can tell you all the sordid details of chicken farming. However, if the intent was to pun, indicating SU’s departure and Marinatto’s effective abdication of leadership as he watches the big east crumble amounts to a coup-d’etat… then golf claps may be in order.
Orange you glad it's not football season?
by SUMB44 on Feb 14, 2012 5:07 PM EST via Android app reply actions
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Let's require Georgetown
to play four Big East football teams, make ‘Nova play three of them. No, it doesn’t solve the problem of needing 7 wins for bowl eligibility (I can see the ESPN headlines already), but it does fill out the rest of the schedule.
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I think Marinatto saw WVU's $20 million
and decided with these new teams coming in he’ll just take the money and let us run.
ffffing hope so.
Nothing worse than being stuck in limbo.
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by StealthTurkey on Feb 14, 2012 5:23 PM EST up reply actions
Still not convinced
They won’t try to squeeze more out of Pitt and SU. I bet they start negotiations at $15 million.
If I’m SU, I wait about a week on Boise joining. After that, get 2 non-conf games right away (Florida St has an opening). Screw this home and neutral garbage with Rutgers. Blow it off. The BE isn’t giving Syracuse any of that money from WV so they might as well start looking out for itself. Show me in the bylaw where the conference can make you play every team once, except when they can’t get enough teams. Then you play a single team twice in the same season.
This isn't good news
I was hoping that WVU’s departure would lead to SU and Pitt’s departure for the 2012 season. I noticed that the ACC still hasn’t published a fall football schedule, so I was hoping that it was an indicator of an imminent ACC logo all over the Dome.
What interest does any of us have in playing a lame duck year in the Big East, especially in basketball. I know all of you east coast types get turned on by Rutgers twice, or playing Georgetown in basketball, but I’m in Pac-12 country, and I care that Syracuse is in a real conference with real teams that have national interest. I want to see SU play Duke, NC, BC, and Florida State in all sports.
Of course, I want to see SU play USC every year. In 2011, I got both of my alma maters in consecutive weeks at the Coliseum!
Go Cuse. Go Utes. Go Kings (hockey version). Go Panthers (hockey version). Go Marlins. Go Dodgers. I despise the NFL and NBA, so don't bore me.
NO ONE gets turned on by playing Rutgers twice.
That’s like having to eat your own vomit. Very bad experience in both directions.
by offthedome on Feb 14, 2012 9:22 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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