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Five Good Minutes: Notre Dame Football Preview With One Foot Down
To preview this weekend's Holy War matchup between the Boston College Eagles and Notre Dame Fighting Irish, we welcome burger23 of the Notre Dame blog One Foot Down for Five Good Minutes. In exchange, we answered some questions on BC over at OFD. This is the first of two guest bloggers this week...
Maryland Could Drop As Many As 10 Varsity Programs
Sad news out of College Park where earlier this week, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson is considering eliminating the Terrapins swimming & diving program. But that might all all the cuts that the Terps athletics department end up cutting. Bob Groseth, executive director of the College Swimming...
Conference Realignment: West Virginia Files Suit Against Big East
In an attempt to extricate itself from the Big East Conference for the 2012 season, the University of West Virginia has filed suit against the Big East Conference. This is going to end about as well as you'd expect it to. "West Virginia University filed a lawsuit against the Big East Conference...
Five Good Minutes: Maryland Football Preview With Testudo Times
To preview this weekend's ACC pillow fight between the Eagles and Terrapins, we welcome back the boys from the Maryland blog Testudo Times. In exchange, we answered some questions on BC over at their site. BC Interruption: We've gone from talking about Danny O'Brien's monster freshman campaign...
Conference Realignment: Clemson (Again) Denies Interest In Move To SEC
It appears that Mark Blaudschun's fantasy Big East implosion scenario that sent Clemson to the SEC and Connecticut to the ACC as the Tigers' replacement made its way all the way down to Clemson, South Carolina on Friday. If Clemson has had conversations with the SEC recently, that is news to...
Boston Globe: Latest Conference Realignment End Game Adds Notre Dame, UConn To ACC
Assistant to the Big East Commissioner / Boston Globe BC football beat writer Mark Blaudschun continues to go HAM stumping for the ACC to extend an invite to the University of Connecticut. On Wednesday, Blauds blogged that that Missouri holds the fate of Big East football in its hands, in a report...
Are Maryland And Florida State Keeping Their Conference Realignment Options Open, Just A Little?
So remember earlier this month when the ACC was toying with the idea of increasing the buyout for members to leave the conference? Then the University presidents went ahead and did exactly that, unanimously approving an increase to the exit fee to $20 million and signaling to the other conferences...
Conference Realignment: Notre Dame Newspaper Makes Case For ACC
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish -- the self-proclaimed "best looking girl at the high school dance" -- is still the most coveted expansion target out there. The debate continues to rage whether the Irish will end up in a conference, and whether that conference is the Big Ten or the ACC. In a letter...
Boston College Daily Links: Syracuse, Pitt Must Wait 27-Months
Conference expansion-palooza 2k11! Big East says Pitt must wait 27-months (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)Big East commissioner John Marinatto told Pete Thamel of the New York Times that the conference will hold Pitt and Syracuse to the 27-month period before either school can leave to join the ACC. That...
Conference Realignment: Big East Isn't Afraid To Dream Even Bigger And Less Eastern
I've gotta say it's been almost impossible to keep up with all the conference expansion and realignment rumors this week, as they've been all over the place. As soon as I publish this post, I'm sure there will be five more rumors circulating about program XX to conference YY, and other such...
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