Hi, Boston College?
Yeah, what the hell are you thinking?
You're giving up any semblance of regional rivalries.
You're making some strange claims about enlarging your recruiting 'footprint.'
Oh, yeah. You'll get access to all those Florida football recruits you don't get now.
Cause they'll want to come to BC after Miami and Florida State beat the crap out of you every year.
And basketball recruits?
HA!
Pardon me.
Um, you'll now be up against Duke, Wake Forest, UNC, NC State, Maryland, etc.
Face it.
You're going to be a doormat.
A doormat in a league where your closest rival is over 400 miles away.
You're leaving a league that you now have a chance to be a big dog in, a league that will probably maintain its BCS status, a league where you have a natural rival eighty miles away.
Your travel planners and athletic budget makers must love you.
But this move is going to raise your profile, right?
Right.
Just like Baylor.
Just like Vanderbilt.
Just like Northwestern.
Welcome to doormat-land, fools.
And the Big East.
MOVE, MOTHERFUCKERS, MOVE!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
CUSA has moved.
The WAC moved.
Damn, make that announcement.
And what the fuck is up with not taking Marshall?
That's my real beef.
I realize you're after basketball.
I'm willing too ignore the fact that Louisville is in no way, shape or from east, nor is Cincinnati. And Milwaukee? Chicago?
Seriously.
But whatever.
So you take Cincy, Lousiville, Marquette and DePaul.
You become a very, very good basketball conference.
But what are you replacing?
You're losing your two best football programs.
And stupid, stupid BC.
You're not losing any great basketball programs.
You're getting two average-at-best football programs.
And four excellent basketball programs.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, ADD THE BEST MID-MAJOR FOOTBALL PROGRAM OVER THE LAST 6 YEARS.
or quit playing football altogether.
Actually, just quit.
Stupid northeasterners don't care enough about football to deserve I-A teams.