Quote Originally Posted by mhall View Post
How does this help ND?? Being an independent in football for so long with their rich tradition, I don't see where they needed to be in a conference in football. The basketball side of it is marginal at best and if you are trying to say the Big 12 is heads and above the BE in basketball you are smoking crack. You have one of the most overrated basketball conference in all of roundball...
Good lord man, just how many teams have to leave the BE before you say the Conference is not gonna be so High and Mighty as the BE followers say it is.....

Let's see now:

Pittsburh
Syracuse
WVA
Notre Dame... There name alone spells TV deal big time, take them from the BE and again the BE don't look so good again.....Not to mention their Academic standards and results will take away from the BE.....

Not to mention the only reason U of L got into the BE in the first place was to make up for the loss of Boston College and Miami.....

Yep, Power House Conference now for sure, with Houston, SMU, UCF and Boise State added to make up for the ship jumper's.......

But go ahead and keep foolin yourself into believeing that the BE is (THE ) Conference that you want to belong to...