An ongoing concern at this blog will be the reformatting of the Big East and beyond. This is something we’ve been arguing over since May.

Basically, it’s a given that the Big East will raid at least two schools from Conference USA for football. Most likely Louisville and Cinci. Of course other members of C-USA that play both football and b-ball are looking to get in on it.

Schools are positioning themselves for another shakeup of the conference landscape once the Big East completes its expansion plans, which could happen as soon as late October. C-USA member East Carolina is interested in joining the Big East, and it took a serious step toward making that happen when it hired former SEC commissioner and BCS czar Roy Kramer as an athletic department consultant.

I don’t care who they freaking hire. East Carolina would be a pathetic choice to include in Big East survival expansion.

I have nothing personal against ECU. I don’t even know ECU — but what are they, the sixth choice for North Carolina kids (Duke, UNC, NC St., Wake, UNC-Greensboro). The last thing Big East expansion needs is another team that really pines to become a part of the ACC. On the plus side, they actually have a real site with pictures for their cheerleaders (pay attention, Pitt).

Besides that, they bring absolutely nothing to the basketball side of things. Football wise they have been better than I thought, but they are a poor fit. No name recognition; no cache; nothing. The Big East would be better served keeping Temple.