Way to go Rutgers. Shame on UConn

It has come time to kick Notre Dame out of the Big East. It is obvious that they have no interest in becoming a member of the football conference and the hinderance that brings to the other BE football schools is not outweighed by having Notre Dame as a member in other sports. Big East football teams are almost desperate to add another team so that they can schedule 4 conference home games every year and make up the revenue they struggle to maintain in years that they only have 3 conference home games. It is very difficult to schedule the extra nonconference game and maintain home game revenues. (teams typically pay other teams to come play at home) Tranghese and other BE officials have stated that they will not be adding another school in Big East football because of the overfill of schools in other sports in the Big East. Eliminating Notre Dame from the "other" Big East conference would allow for the addition of a school that could play in football and the other sports. (East Carolina is the school most talked about for this)

Initially, the addition of Notre Dame was a false hope (at least for the fans anyway) that someday Notre Dame would need to join a football conference and the Big East would have their foot in the door. It is becoming apparent that is something that will never happen. There is also some fear that eliminating Notre Dame would cause it to be more difficult to attract bowl tie-ins for the conference. I think that the Big East has come far enough that we don't need Notre Dame's help to keep the mediocre tie-ins that we already have.

Now Notre Dame is pushing even harder. Notre Dame agreed to schedule a certain number of games within a certain time with schools in Big East football when they joined the conference. UConn and Notre Dame have agreed on a 6 game series. Of course, Notre Dame would only agree to the series if the "home" games at UConn were played in larger cities and not on UConn's brand new facility. UConn had to get special permission from the state legislature to be able to agree to playing "home" games away from their on campus facility. Is this really helping the Big East? I don't think this is what the Big East had in mind when they asked Notre Dame to schedule football w/ Big East schools. Rutgers is turning down a 10 game series w/ Notre Dame because they are asking the same thing and Rutgers is refusing. They also have a relatively new facility and they don't see any good reason to schedule "home" games somewhere else. I expect Notre Dame will keep calling on schools in the Big East to schedule games so that they can fulfill their obligation. The rest of the schools in the Big East need to stand firm and refuse to play home games away from their campus. We need to unify and tell Notre Dame that if they don't want to come to our houses to play football, then maybe we aren't interested in playing any sports in South Bend.