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THE BIG EAST'S eight football schools quietly locked up a boatload of money last week. And almost no one noticed."It was," said West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong, "monumental."Perhaps appropriately, Pastilong spoke while attending a Fiesta Bowl function in Phoenix. That's the same city in which, four years earlier, the Bowl Championship Series handlers announced a three-pronged ... [link]

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Reporters' Notebooks
Published 5/7/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
... Mitch Vingle, Charleston Gazette: The Big East's seat at the BCS table, which was questioned after the raid of Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College by the Atlantic Coast Conference, is finally secure. ...

Big East Keeps its BCS Status Sun Rises in the East
Published 5/7/2008 by John Radcliff at FanHouse
... it's BCS status? Miami and Virginia Tech left in 2003 and Boston College in 2004. The conference sent Pitt, one of several 8-4 teams in the Big East to lose to Utah in the Fiesta Bowl. And there wasn't much reason to think the conference was going to get better any time soon. The conference was written off by the media and the blogospher didn't even bother to poke fun. But something happened last week that most of us didn't even notice. The Big East was granted a spot in the BCS through 2013. The reason is simple: no one noticed the news. No one ...

Big East Keeps it's BCS Status Sun Rises in the East
Published 5/7/2008 by John Radcliff at FanHouse
... it's BCS status? Miami and Virginia Tech left in 2003 and Boston College in 2004. The conference sent Pitt, one of several 8-4 teams in the Big East to lose to Utah in the Fiesta Bowl. And there wasn't much reason to think the conference was going to get better any time soon. The conference was written off by the media and the blogospher didn't even bother to poke fun. But something happened last week that most of us didn't even notice. The Big East was granted a spot in the BCS through 2013. The reason is simple: no one noticed the news. No one ...

Big East Keeps its BCS Status Sun Rises in the East
Published 5/7/2008 by John Radcliff at FanHouse
... it's BCS status? Miami and Virginia Tech left in 2003 and Boston College in 2004. The conference sent Pitt, one of several 8-4 teams in the Big East to lose to Utah in the Fiesta Bowl. And there wasn't much reason to think the conference was going to get better any time soon. The conference was written off by the media and the blogospher didn't even bother to poke fun. But something happened last week that most of us didn't even notice. The Big East was granted a spot in the BCS through 2013. The reason is simple: no one noticed the news. No one ...

Our Apathy Is Less Apathetic Than Washington State's Apathy
Published 5/8/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (MariusJanulisForThree) at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
... The even better news is that when we go 11-1 and win the Big East (ahem), we'll be going back to the BCS bowl of choice. Last week, the BCS reaffirmed the participation of all six leagues currently involved through the end of the 2013 season. It wasn't too long ago everyone was counting the Big East out of the equation. But that was before West Virginia vs. Georgia. That was before three straight BCS bowl wins. ...

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