ECU-Big East News
sweep:
Nuggets from the Internet
From staff and electronic reports
Media coverage of Tuesday's news
of the impending departures of East Carolina and Tulane from
Conference USA to the Big East has been copious. A generous
sampling ferreted around the World Wide Web from sources big,
not-so-big, straightforward, funny and sarcastic:
Newport News Daily Press: Conference
USA defections don't deter Old Dominion's commitment
Buyer’s remorse for Conference
USA? Not an ounce, Old Dominion athletic director Wood Selig
said, after East Carolina announced that its football program
would join the Big East Conference and Tulane will join the Big
East for all sports. ...
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Memphis Commercial Appeal: Tulane,
East Carolina to join Memphis in Big East
It appears as if the University of
Memphis isn't leaving Conference USA as much as it's following,
joining and eventually re-uniting with a majority of current and
former C-USA schools under the Big East banner. ...
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Tampa Bay Times: Tulane, East
Carolina latest to join revamped Big East
With each new subtraction and
addition in the Big East's ongoing makeover, USF's future looks
a little more like its past. ...
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Sports Illustrated: Big East adding
East Carolina for football, Tulane for all sports
The Big East grew by two more
members Tuesday, adding Tulane for all sports and East Carolina
as a football-only member. The moves will take place for the
2014-15 season, as the Big East continues its overhaul after
losing members to the ACC, Big 12 and Big 10. ...
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Charleston Daily Mail: Hamrick
remains confident in league
Tulane and East Carolina may be
leaving Conference USA, but Marshall Athletic Director Mike
Hamrick feels the conference will be fine. Hamrick expressed
confidence in Conference USA leaders that they'll do what' is
best for the remaining schools. ...
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Charlotte Observer: ECU will be a
big plus in Big East
By the time East Carolina begins
play as a Big East football member in 2014, the league will
resemble the Conference USA of 2012. It turns out that ECU will
be changing addresses while maintaining much the same
competitive company. But be that as it may, the school and its
thousands of loyal, long-suffering fans won with Tuesday’s news
of the pending relocation. ...
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Kansas City Star: East Carolina
headed to Big East for Football
The shuffle among college
conferences continued Tuesday as Tulane and East Carolina
announced they would leave Conference USA to join the Big East
Conference. ...
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Houston Chronicle: Tulane, East
Carolina to join Cougars in Big East
The University of Houston will
have some familiar company in the Big East. Tulane and East
Carolina, current members in Conference USA, both announced
Tuesday departures from the league to the Big East beginning in
2014. ...
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Yahoo Sports: Tulane, East Carolina
jump to Big East
The shuffle among college
conferences continued Tuesday as Tulane and East Carolina
announced they would leave Conference USA to join the Big East
Conference. ...
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Yahoo Sports Blog: Tulane and East
Carolina join the Big East
Expansion took a turn for the
bizarre Tuesday when the Big East — if one can even still call
it that — decided to add Tulane in all sports and East Carolina
in football. The Big East just lost Rutgers to the Big Ten and
adds two more Conference USA pieces to a conference that once
used to reside in just the East. ...
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ESPN: Tulane, East Carolina joining
Big East Conference
Tulane joined the Big East in all
sports on Tuesday, becoming the latest addition to the rapidly
rebuilding conference. East Carolina also is headed to the Big
East as a football-only member. Both schools will join the
league in 2014. ...
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USA Today: Big East to add Tulane,
East Carolina
Tulane is joining the Big East as
a full member in 2014 and East Carolina as a football-only
member, the schools announced at separate news conferences
Tuesday afternoon. ...
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Boston Globe: Big East to add Tulane
and East Carolina in 2014
The Big East moved quickly to
replace Rutgers and braced for more possible departures, getting
Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the re-invented
conference in 2014...
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Washington Post: Tulane, East
Carolina to join Big East in 2014
The Big East moved quickly to
replace Rutgers and braced for more possible departures, getting
Tulane and East Carolina to agree to join the re-invented
conference in 2014. ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Big East
welcomes East Carolina
Big East Conference Commissioner
Mike Aresco has announced the addition of East Carolina
University, one of the nation’s emerging research institutions,
as a conference member that will compete in the BIG EAST in the
sport of football. ...
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Business Week: Tulane, East Carolina
Join Big East After Rutgers Exit to Big 10
Tulane University and East
Carolina University will join the Big East Conference starting
with the 2014-15 academic year following Rutgers University’s
exit from the league to the Big Ten. ...
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CBS Sports Blog: More expansion
expected from the Big East after additions of Tulane, East
Carolina
Fresh off Rutgers' decision to
accept an invitation to the Big 10 last week, the Big East
announced Tuesday that it is adding Tulane in all sports and
East Carolina for football for the 2014-2015 season. For a
conference that has been hit hard by deflections over the past
two years, it provides some stability. ...
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New York Times: Big East Adds Tulane
and East Carolina
The Big East moved quickly to
replace Rutgers, getting Tulane and East Carolina to agree to
join in 2014. The additions will make it six Conference USA
universities joining the Big East in the last two years. “We’re
not finished,” the Big East commissioner, Mike Aresco, said. ...
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Chicago Tribune: Big East to welcome
Tulane, East Carolina
The Big East reportedly is
expanding again, set to add Tulane and East Carolina. It's just
the latest news in the altered landscape of college athletics,
as last week Maryland and Rutgers revealed plans to join the Big
Ten. ...
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New York Post: Big East should
change its name to embrace country-wide identity
It's time for the Big East to do
what once would have thought to be unfathomable — change its
name. The conference formerly known as the Big East should now
call itself the Big National. Yesterday’s announcement the
league is adding Tulane in all sports and East Carolina in
football, less than two weeks after losing Rutgers to the Big
Ten, continues the league’s transformation from an East-centric
league to a national conference. ...
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Cincinnati Enquirer: Big East is
C-USA reunion
The news just keeps getting worse
for the Big East Conference and for the University of Cincinnati
athletic program. The Big East announced Tuesday that in 2014
Tulane will join the Big East for all sports and East Carolina
will join for football only, which means the Bearcats have
travelled in one big circle since leaving Conference USA for the
Big East in 2005 and have ended up essentially right back where
they started. ...
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Wilmington Star-News: A marriage of
convenience that works for both sides
For awhile, East Carolina must
have felt like the smallest kid on the playground, waiting
patiently for its chance to get into the game while everyone
else around it got picked to join a team. Tuesday, after years
of hoping, praying and politicking, it’s finally the Pirates’
turn. ...
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