The insanity of conference realignment in college football may have reached its peak last week when reports named Army, Navy and Air Force as possible future members of the Big East. The scenario had the service academies joining the conference as football-only members. It allows the Big East to fill vacant spots left by the bolting of Pittsburgh and Syracuse (as well as turncoat TCU, and probably Connecticut and West Virginia too), and gave the service academies a coveted spot in a BCS conference. In any other year, the idea of the service academies playing football in a major conference would sound…
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Air Force and Navy’s football rivalry could reach a new level as a result of the ongoing conference shake up — their annual meeting could have conference implications in the Big East race. The Associated Press and ESPN reporter Andy Katz are reporting the Big East is targeting the two service academies to join the conference after Pittsburgh and Syracuse announced they’d leave the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference. Each would receive a football-only invitation, saving their respective basketball teams the collective embarrassment of playing in the juggernaut hoops conference — not to mention saving the Air Force…
The TCU tennis and cross country coaches might be shaking their heads over their administration’s money grab decision to transfer all sports to the Big East starting in 2012, but the Air Force Academy doesn’t seem to mind too much. Air Force Academy Superintendent and a former assistant football coach Lt. Gen. Mike Gould issued a bland statement of support for TCU and the Mountain West Conference’s future. “We feel very confident about the long-term sustainability of the Mountain West Conference, especially with the upcoming additions of Boise State, Fresno State and University of Nevada-Reno to the membership of the…
