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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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. ... More...

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