Rick Pitino Is Actually Right!

**LWC** · 10-26-2011, 09:35 PM

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketba...emple-owls

Quote:Louisville coach Rick Pitino is actively lobbying the Big East Conference and its member schools to add Memphis and Temple for basketball, regardless of whether the Big East adds Central Florida, Houston or SMU.

Pitino said Wednesday that he has expressed his opinion to Big East commissioner John Marinatto and wants the league to seriously consider raising the basketball profile of the conference during the turbulent period of realignment.

**Stardust** · 10-26-2011, 10:19 PM

^ I would rather the BEAST take on Xavier. I'd hate to see X get left out in the dark

**TidesHoss32** · 10-27-2011, 12:46 AM

^Xavier basketball is the most underrated program in college sports.

**Stardust** · 10-27-2011, 08:08 AM

It's amazing that it has sustained it's success with the carousel of coaches. It is the dUKe of the midwest with it's academic success!

**Amun-Ra** · 10-27-2011, 06:39 PM

Memphis to the Big East would be a great move. Personally I would rather have Xavier than Temple. Imagine the rivalry between Louisville, Cincy and X.

A team that I think would help the Big East with basketball, although the school would suffer in football would be Maryland. They would have a geographical rival in Georgetown and would help replace the loss of Syracuse and Pitt in terms of tough programs. But since the Big East is a joke now when it comes to football, i don't think the school would want to lose what they got in the crappy ACC.