The Big East Sucks

I just finished watching team Wannestache's upset of South Florida (on the road no less) and with that loss, the last shred of Big East football credibility went swirling down the drain. After the ACC raid of 2004 everyone worried about what would happen to the Big East, and rightly so. Well, behind the power or Rich Rodriguez's offense at West Virginia, Bobby Petrino's work at Louisville and the emergence of Rutgers and South Florida, the conference ended up doing just fine thank you very much. Just fine until 2008 that anyway.

With Pitt's upset of USF, the only team left in Big East that could be considered a legitimate top 10 team was exposed as being a fraud, and that sucks.

I'm happy for Panther fans, they have suffered for a long time and deserve a little happiness for sticking with their team (quick side bar - it's amazing how sitting through terrible losses for the last 4 years has given me empathy for the plight other team's fans). However, the game only confirmed what everyone feared but didn't want to admit - South Florida isn't that good.

Less than a week ago, the Panthers struggled to beat a bad Syracuse team and Pitt has already lost at home to Bowling Green. In other words, they weren't coming in like a ball of fire, and if USF was truly a top 10 team they should have taken care of business at home. While this win is big, in my idiotic mind it only confirmed what I have long suspected, that Wanny is just good enough to win games that will keep him from getting fired, but nowhere near good enough to make Pitt a legitimate contender. For every win at USF, there will be stumble against a lesser opponent, that is a near certainty.

What is another certainty in 2008 is that the Big East sucks balls. A quick review of where the conference stands on October 2 isn't pretty:

• Bill Stewart has f*cked up a good thing at West Virginia.


• Rutgers woke up from their wet dream and immediately reverted to their natural state -- sucking


• Louisville, while improving, has a lot of work to do


• Cincinnati could be frisky, except they are getting decimated by injuries


• Pitt, while showing life now, will ultimately lose to someone they should beat


• For the second year in a row South Florida proved they aren't a legitimate candidate to be a top tier NCAA team: and


• Syracuse is beyond a joke

Which means your 2008 Big East champion very well could be the Connecticut Huskies, who will invariably get blown out in a BCS game. Kill me now. Dr. Gross, I don't care how much it costs, or what it takes, get Randy Edsall back home now because dealing with UConn hoop fans is unbearable as it is - I'm not prepared to live in a world where we have to deal with their football fans too.