Didn't they decide to the leave the most powerful basketball conference with the biggest TV markets in the country?Wasn't it Pitt President Mark Nordenberg who persuaded the conference Yet Cantor's concocted justification doesn't come close to the hypocrisy with which Pittsburgh president is acting.Apparently president Mark Nordenberg chose to forget history when he That sounds like something any responsible university president would say until you recall that Pittsburgh, along with four other Big East schools, sued Boston College after BC ditched the Big East for the ACC in 2003. “Although I was obviously very disappointed to learn the news about the ACC’s being in discussions about membership with the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University, I continue to believe the Big East Conference is well positioned for the future and that the events of the past 24 hours will unify our membership,” Big East commissioner John Marinatto said in a statement. We win together. Calls to Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Peterson’s cell phone were not returned. Neither university notified the league office until yesterday morning after filing for membership with the ACC on Friday night, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told The Post. Gavitt, 73, stepped away from his role as the head basketball coach at Providence to help establish the league in 1979. Too bad the Syracuse and Pittsburgh didn't agree. The ACC would become the country’s best basketball league. The ACC, which would then have 14 schools, certainly could seek two more. It would have been fun to continue two of college basketball's greatest rivalries. Other schools invited were Seton Hall, Connecticut, Holy Cross, Rutgers, and Boston College, with Rutgers and Holy Cross declining to join. Syracuse wasn’t leaving the Big East of Pearl Washington, John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca. TCU athletic director Chris Del Conti, whose teams are set to join the Big East next season, told The Post he is committed to the move but will do what’s in the best interest of the Horned Frogs. The end of the Big East as a power conference is here because the presidents of Syracuse and Pittsburgh were greedy and acted in a manner unbefitting of universities in …
They grabbed Miami and Virginia Tech in 2003 and Boston College the following year. The day after Dave Gavitt, the founding father of the Big East Conference, died, the league for which he sacrificed so much was stunned by the defections of Pittsburgh and Syracuse … We've received your submission.The day after Dave Gavitt, the founding father of the Big East Conference, died, the league for which he sacrificed so much was stunned by the defections of Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the Atlantic Coast Conference. From court to concrete. Even Dick Vitale, long known for his love-affair with school administrators, took to Twitter to mocking Pitt's president by writing, (Note to Pitt students, pass on the ethics courses, apparently morality is not a priority at your university). So on the same weekend that venerable Dave Gavitt, founder of the original Big East and long-time commissioner passed away, Syracuse (an original member) and Pittsburgh, stab his legacy in the back and have destroyed the once mighty Big East.It's a sad day for college athletics but at least while we Georgetown fans are fretting our own school's future, as we watch two great teams (and more to follow) desert the Big East, we can hold our heads held high knowing we had a 40-34 record against Pitt.
Wasn't it Pitt and Syracuse who falsely manufactured such uncertainty? The fate of the other Big East schools that play FBS football is unknown. West Virginia sued the Big East… The ACC announced Sunday that its council of presidents unanimously voted to accept the two schools from the Big East, according to The Associated Press. Syracuse's chancellor Nancy Cantor offered a weak and specious defense But wait, what was so unstable about the Big East? As a Georgetown alum, I was both infuriated by and despondent at the news that Syracuse and Pittsburgh were leaving the Big East.Don't get me wrong, it's always satisfying to blame our two biggest rivals for anything and everything—especially when they (their president's really) display such shameful, greedy and hypocritical behavior—but the news of the of the Syracuse and Pittsburgh jumping ship is also a sad day for the Big East and college basketball as a whole. Support The Social Change Fund with our new collection
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