Should a lagging conference get its automatic BCS

[KB]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=2630413

Should a lagging conference get its automatic BCS bid rescinded?

I know what you're thinking, and the answer is no. The Atlantic Coast Conference should keep its bid.

The Big East? The conference with three teams in the top 19 (one more than the ACC, not to mention the Big 12)?

So far, it's clear that the demise of the Big East has been greatly exaggerated. The demise of the ACC is just as temporary, although it should be pointed out that Miami never had these behavior issues when it belonged to the Big East.

"It's all a perception issue," Big East associate commissioner Nick Carparelli, Jr., said this week. "You can clearly make a case that every one of our teams is better now than two years ago. We weren't as bad (in 2004) as everyone thought we were. Everyone assumed the teams we were left with were no good."

If No. 4 West Virginia wins at UConn on Friday night, and No. 6 Louisville wins at Syracuse on Saturday, they will have made their game on Thursday, Nov. 2, one of the biggest in the history of the conference, not just the history of newly configured one. This Saturday, No. 19 Rutgers takes its 6-0 record to Pittsburgh to play the 6-1 Panthers in a game that ESPN2 thought enough of to move to 5:45 p.m.

"When you have a one-horse conference," Carparelli said, "you're banking on one thing happening. When you have two, three, four teams that are perceived to be good, the number of quality games multiplies."

The Big East has a new contract with ESPN. With the success thus far this season, the automatic bid to the BCS appears safe. After the shakeup of conferences that took place two years ago, the new Big East asked to be judged over a period of time. Already, it looks as if it's worthy.

"We try not to overreact to how well we're doing," Carparelli said. "You never know in this game. We're not going to have two teams in the top 10 all the time."

The same courtesy should be given the new ACC. I'm sure that, given time, it will prove itself worthy of keeping its automatic bid, too.

[E.T.]

And EVERY Big East game is viewable and not overlapped.

Great Weekend of Big East Football !

[BULLfreak]

GO BIG EAST

[E.T.]

People wanted to drop the Big East's BCS tag .. 2 years and it has shown it deserves it.

But would be glad when the BCS is gone, has added nothing to help.