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Where in the World Will Notre Dame Land?

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Without question, Notre Dame is the most powerful, most recognizable and easily the most marketable member of the Big East Conference. Yet, the Fighting Irish aren't even part of the Big East's football membership. And with the Big Ten looking to expand, and the dominoes that could follow...

Commish: Big East Not Dead Yet

The Big East is kaput. Done. Toast. Just last month, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said the Big East "is in trouble." On Sunday, former Syracuse athletic Jake Crouthamel, who helped form the league 30 years ago, said he doesn't believe the league will survive. A lot of people involved in college athletics...

Syracuse Player Has Run-in With Geno Auriemma, Big East Takes No Action

The above video appears to show UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma and Syracuse forward Nicole Michael exchanging words as they go through the post-game handshake line, followed by Michael trying to trip Auriemma when they cross paths again, and Auriemma being restrained by his players from going after Michael. A...

The Big East Has A Network Too

Woo Hoo! Well, not really a network like the Big Ten. But most certainly this was a lot less painful than the Big Ten's fight with Comcast. The Big East announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with SNY to carry Big East football and basketball. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, gives SNY, which...

Reasons Against College Football Playoff Legitimate, Joe Paterno Be Damned

Quote the Penn State coach last week:"To be frank with you, I don't know what the reasons are not to have a playoff," Paterno said during a speaking appearance in Pittsburgh. "You can talk about missing class and all that kind of stuff, (yet) you see basketball go on forever. You have a lot of bogus excuses.Now, far be it...

Mike Tranghese News From the Web

05/16/12 Talk of a college football selection committee coming... Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX Talk of a college football selection committee coming full circle?
05/11/12 Five for the Weekend: For fans, title weekend in... Source: CBSSports.com The NCAA is moving the Division II and Division III championships to the same location as next season's Final Four. So now they can be mostly ignored in the same location as next season's Final Four. Awesome.
05/08/12 On Colleges: John Marinatto Resigns as Big East... Source: The New York Times - New York NY The Big East, scheduled to have 13 Football Bowl Subdivision programs and 18 basketball universities, now has a gypsy's soul, with Kardashian commitment issues and a future so unstable that its pool of candidates will not be filled with polished clones like Pacific-12 Commissioner Larry Scott.

Background on Mike Tranghese

Michael "Mike" Tranghese was the commissioner of the Big East Conference and helped create the conference as founder Dave Gavitt's right-hand man in 1979.

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