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Well, Pasqualoni will be calling the plays like he did the years that they were going 10-3 and 9-2 and going to the Orange Bowl. He has to start winning this year, or its all over. I think he will. He is a good game day coach and his players will die for him. He has no disciplinary problems. He has either the highest graduation rates or one of the highest. For those reasons is why he is still head coach. But those are not good enough reasons to keep a coach if your programs go from one of the most consistant winning programs to just mediocre or worse. He should start winning this year. He has a great QB from Texas. Cuse was just a QB away from going 9-3 last season. If he goes 8-3 this season he will still be coach. I dont think he can afford to go 7-4.

No way. Bobby Gonzalez is on his way to St John's as head coach. He is fron NYC, and he has many high scool connections in NYC. St John's has him as #1 on their list. But there are many great bb coaches at smaller programs looking to go big time. Gtown will attract a lot of them.

Yeah!!! Its about time. I never thought that they could pull off beating Uconn and Pitt in the same week. I thought they could win 1 of the games. Looks like Coach Beo has them up to the task.

It is flawed. The BE needs to just drop that silly lawsuit, and conentrate their efforts on getting its new schools in there.

Hey Guys, you should take a look at the West Virginia insiders board. There a re a couple of threads, one called "sizing up USF, and another called sizing up Louisville.  i think you will all be very interested.

that is some aweful offense.  Any good offensive team should be able to score above 49 pts after 45 minute game... 1.1 pts per minute is aweful. Thats usually true unless you play Pitt.  They cant run or fast break with a lot of teams, so they outmuscle and push and keep the other team from running. Pitt is the best defensive team in the country and the best team in the country period. Nobody is going to beat Pitt by more than 5-7 points. At the end of regulation, the 2 teams were tied 44/44. You guys will find out soon enough how physical the BE BB is.  Then you will understand.

Here's the article from ESPNs site. Sunday, February 29, 2004 Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The Bowl Championship Series agreed to add a fifth game Sunday, increasing access for schools not part of college football's most lucrative postseason system. The champions of the six BCS conferences -- the Big East, ACC, SEC, Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-10 -- will maintain automatic berths in one of the five games. The remaining four spots will be at-large berths to be decided by a complex formula using national rankings. The fifth bowl is still subject to final approval based on market viability, but all indications point to it being in place when the new BCS contract takes effect before the 2007 season. "This agreement is a significant victory for college sports and higher education," NCAA president Myles Brand said. The current BCS bowls are the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange. One of those bowls pits the top two teams in the BCS standings in a championship game, which will be the Orange Bowl next season. The Rose, Fiesta and Sugar host the other games. Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer, a member of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, said the fifth bowl would join in the title game rotation. He also said the Rose Bowl would retain its long-standing ties to the Big Ten and Pac-10 champions during years in which it does not host the title game. The other bowls also would have the chance to protect conference ties. Frohnmayer said existing bowls probably will get the first shot at becoming the fifth BCS bowl. Cities expected to show immediate interest include Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Orlando and San Diego. "We are envisioning a bowl of equal stature in terms of its command of television audiences and its desirability from a standpoint of teams," Frohnmayer said. "Whether that would come from the volunteering of an existing bowl system and its own structure or the creation of a new bowl, that's something we simply can't determine at this point." Smaller schools complain that the BCS makes it impossible for them to win the national championship and puts them at a financial and recruiting disadvantage. The BCS Presidential Oversight Committee and the Coalition for Athletics Reform, which has been fighting to change the current system, agreed to the changes after a six-hour meeting Sunday. It was third meeting in nine months of wrangling. Tulane president Scott Cowen, the leader of the Coalition for Athletics Reform, said they agreed on access rules for non-BCS schools but refused to give details until after the new rules are presented to the conferences. He said that using the new system, a non-BCS school would have played in a BCS bowl in four of the last six seasons. He declined to say which teams or which seasons. "It's a significant improvement from where we are right now," Cowen said. The committee and the BCS conceded that the new changes do not guarantee that a team from a non-BCS conference will play in one of the BCS bowls. The BCS bowls generate more than $110 million a year for the big conferences. The BCS gives about $6 million a year to smaller conferences. Frohnmayer said those figures should increase under the new format. "It's our hope that the interest in the series will be heightened by the availability of one more game," he said. "It's our hope that this whole new system will generate more revenue." Because ABC owns the current television rights to BCS games, Frohnmayer said the network would get a chance to negotiate a new contract under the five-bowl format. Negotiations with the bowls and TV networks begin soon, starting almost immediately with next year's Rose Bowl, putting some sense of urgency to the talks. "Today is a very good day for college athletics," Cowen said. "This has been a difficult and contentious issue to deal with for the last nine months." No surprise here, we all knew this was the way things would unfold.

Well let me just enlighten you on the new BE basketball conference saevrick: The new BE with the additions of Louisville, Cinci, Marquette, Depaul and USF has had by far the most National Championships of any conference in history, along with more final fours, and sweet 16s. If the new BE was together this year, we would more than likely place 10 or 11 teams in the big dance, maybe even more. Its very possible that the present BE will place 7. The RPI index has 11 NBE teams ranked in top 50. No question, it is not even going to be close. I cant wait until we are all together.

Providence is not on anybody's bubble. They are ranked #13 near the end of the season playing in the BE. They are in, and they will probably have a #3 or 4 seed.

Unfortunately SCBullsfan, I have to agree with you. The Cuse has to win tonight, because I dont think they have it in them to beat Pitt at Pitt. They have to have their best game when Uconn comes to the dome, and Billy Edelen, their starting point guard has to come back from his personal problems, and play. His abscence has really threw the team out of whack. It will just be a shame to win the NC one year and fail to qualify the next year.

Who is this Mike Frassano guy, and what are his credentials? I wouldnt worry to much about his rankings. According to Rivals and the Insiders as well as other notable and respected folks, USF had the best recruiting class in the new BE, followed closely by West Virginia and Pittsburgh. Louisville and Rutgers and Syracuse followed. This article hints of a Rutgers persuasion. The folks at Rutgers are really excited for the future of Rutgers, and thats great, but realistically, they are still Rutgers. While I think Rutgers will be much improved, lets see what they do on the fb field this season.

They don't have their own arena, but they do share one with the men's team seats around 10,000. For their big games, they also play in the same arena that the old NHL Hartford Whalers used to play in (17,000). As far as a gym to practice in, I dont know.

Thanks : I didnt know that. Beleive it or not I am a native Floridian Residing in Rochester NY. But I did not know the history of UCF.

Excuse me guys if this is a stupid question, but who in the world is ftu? ??? I keep seeing those initials on this board, but I have no idea who they refer to.

I have to agree that the Mac has had an amazing year. This is the only amazing year that they have ever had. But because they have had this one really good year, you cant say that its better than the new BE, or the remaining BE. They have a couple of really good teams and the rest of the league is absolutely horrible. Even Temple and Rutgers regularly beat up on Buffalo. The BE teams play higher competition on a regular basis. The new BE teams have just fallen apart in bowl competition, but year in and year out the new BE is and will continue to be better than the MAC.

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I am pretty happy that their keeping him. I have to admit that I have been frustrated with his conservative play, but you have to give him credit for keeping the program in the upper echelon once he took over 13 years ago. Its been hard seeing a team that usually wins 8-10 games a year go to LOOSING 6 or 7 >:(games a year. He deserves another year to get things together. He's got a great recruiting class coming in next year.

Smazza: Just be happy that your in the BE. You could be in the same situation as UCF. a win is a win. I would much rather lose to an up and coming Rutgers team than Notre Dame.

Yeah, the Cuse pummeled those non commital selfish bums pretty good.

Looks like the first game between USF and West Virginia is going to be a grudge match. I cant wait. I will warn you though, West Virginia is the real deal on the football field. I am really looking forward to USF joining the BE.