re: The Big East has learned nothing

the new bcs contract will prolly conference involve power rankings and a will require conferences to maintain a certain number of top 25 teams over a period to maintain BCS status.

Should the Big east lose its AQ status? Yes, as they dont have the power rating to justify taking that money away from other conferences IMO, but this didnt just start this year.

Based on the current rules though the BE meets the minumum requirements to maintain AQ status.

and adding the service academies was/is a good more for the football playing schools. the catholic schools need to break away with ND and form a catholic league though and create its own network with ND. Should the services acadimies be AQ? I say no, they arent good enough. And Im former ARMY but they just arent good enough in sports now a days. This is just my opinion though and this move will pull at heart strings. People have a hard time making rational decisions when it comes to the military or anything to do with the military and nobody will want to tell these schools no now that the invitation is out there.