A real good recommendation to get more Big East football fans to turn out and fill those stadiums. Need to have those season tickets like we do at Pappa John Stadium. Going to Cincinnati is close and a West Virginia trip ever other year is super. Getting down to Florida in Tampa Bay is a great beach weekend down I95. Fall mountain colors and beach, what could be finer for travel. And when Memphis gets with us a good place to go too. Great restaurants. Do think those people in other spots need to get season tickets too.

GET the word NO BE SPLIT.GET the word NO CUSA LEFTOVERS.IN THE BE. IN 2009 it will be LOUISVILLE VS ND in football.THE MONEY IS TOO GOOD ALREADY IN THE BE.THERE WILL BE NO CARE PACKAGES FOR CUSA LEFTOVERS FROM THE BE.BY the way NAVY has only a possibility of the MEINKE BOWL.

Fantastic that Louisville will agree to play Notre Dame. But that would be a game that would not count for football standings for the conference. Notre Dame does not play football in Big East. Because the ACC took teams from the Big East you do not need to call Big East and CUSA football leftovers. Like Louisville coming in think in terms of uplifts not leftovers. I know people think about leftovers because Notre Dame will not join for football but takes takes takes. Make Notre Dame the leftover when a split happens. If you follow what happened after the ACC raid, the set up is to do a split about 2010. Take nothing away from Navy they know how to make a bowl. With more help from expansion in football and the split the Big East will get better bowls to come.

When the BE took teams/schools in 2003 it took the very best of the old conference usa.(athletics,academics and markets)The teams /schools were left in cusa needed to reload.They went to the MAC and the WAC.Clearly those that were not taken by the BE were" leftover" and formed a less powerful grouping in terms of tv,bb and football and marketplace. that now makes up the new cusa a non bcs league.Some of the fans and administrators of these leftover teams/schools think it is their task to split the BE so they can join.They placed their interests over all other schools that would be split from the BE to satify themselves.That is not happening.Clearly Louisville enjoys playing ND and the great new BE tv packages.The power and strength of nD clearly benefits the BE and its members to a degree that ND will not be forced into any position it does want as long as it benefits other BE members.(a give and take)