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NYT has the perspective
October 19, 2007 | By Benjamin Miraski
The New York Times might be the old grey lady of journalism, but maybe they have the right perspective on the new look college football world.
Harvey Araton makes the case for Notre Dame giving up its long standing tradition of holding out as an independent and becoming part of the Big East for football.
Why? The Big East, while getting strong play, is still looked upon as weak since losing Miami, Boston College, and Virginia Tech. Apparently it is lost on the rest of the nation that the Big East also made the decision (the right one) to shed an over-matched Temple team in the big reshuffle that occurred. That means that there is no longer a cream puff on the conference schedule (despite what you may think of Syracuse. Just ask Louisville about that one.)
Now, as it is trying to regain prominence, the Big East needs more tradition and some bigger, more well known names to rebuild as a football powerhouse. Meanwhile, Notre Dame needs something to tie its season to, other than its name, in the BCS world, especially if the spiraling downfall doesn't ever reverse into a recovery.
Good argument. Too bad Notre Dame will never go for it.
Posted October 19, 2007 4:20 PM
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