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If you’re a Pitt fan, how can you not like the move to the ACC?

Call me crazy, but I’ll take Florida State, Miami, Virgina Tech over South Florida, UCONN, Louisville and Cincinnati in football and I’m OK with trading UCONN and Georgetown for Duke and North Carolina in basketball.

The Big East has been a football joke for way too long and Pitt has enough challenges when it comes to selling tickets without trying to get people excited about South Florida and Rutgers.

It will be a lot harder for Pitt to win the ACC football championship, but the ACC should make Pitt a better sell to recruits and that should mean better players coming here in the long run .

Any chance we could get Pitt in the Big East for this football season?

First of all, Maine  should change the nickname from Black Bears.

Get it? The Maine Men.

I said last week after the embarrassing performance against Buffalo that Pitt still stinks.

It was embarrassing again Saturday. Pitt was leading Maine 20-15 in the third quarter.

Maine. A team that Pitt should be embarrassed to have on the schedule.

If Pitt can go to Iowa and win their next week, then I’ll change my opinion.

But, new coach and new system or not, right now, Pitt still stinks.

Now there is talk of Pitt moving to the Big 12 conference.

The Pitt Athletic Department released a big no comment and that’s a lot different from releasing a “no way that’s happening.”

Put me down for being in favor of Pitt joining whatever major conference comes calling. Anything to get out of the Big East.

I’ll trade South Florida, Rutgers, Cincinnati, and UCON for Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech any time. And the basketball ain’t bad, either.

Would you be shocked to find out that football players at the University of Miami were given the use of a yacht by a booster?

Nothing shocks me when it comes to college football and slimy, jock-sniffing boosters. I’ve always felt that it’s just about which program is the latest to get caught.

As long as college football continues to serve as the NFL’s and the NBA’s farm system by admitting kids who have no business taking up space on a college campus, this is going to continue.

The Pirates just handed a high school kid (Josh Bell) $5 million. He’ll be able to pursue his baseball career without ever having to prove that he can write two coherent sentences or solve an algebra problem.

A former, sleazy booster is about to blow the whistle on Miami and it could be enough to bring down the football program.

Bill Clinton’s former Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala, is the president of the University of Miami.

She’s the one who made the decision to take the money and run away from the Big East a few years ago.

Pitt fans should be rooting for Miami to take a dive so that it would create the possibility of an invitation to take the money and run to the ACC.

A journalism student at Ohio State is getting a good lesson in how sports fans in 2011 have lost their perspective and, in some cases, their sanity.

The sports editor of the Ohio State student newspaper has received death threats because of his reporting on the Tressel-Pryor fiasco.