Syracuse and Pitt's divorce from the Big East has predictably turned into a public mess
So Syracuse is trying to stick it to the Big East while the Big East tries its best to stick it to Pittsburgh . Sounds about right for a public divorce. Why is anybody surprised?
From ESPN.com's Andy Katz ...
The Panthers figured they'd get a home game from the SEC-Big East Challenge because they played a road game at Tennessee last season. They even held a spot for it. But the Big East surprised school officials this week when it informed them that Jamie Dixon's Panthers wouldn't be part of the Challenge. So now Syracuse is trying to get out of a game it doesn't want, Pittsburgh is trying to get a game it thought it had, and even Deion and Pilar Sanders must think this divorce between Syracuse, Pittsburgh and the Big East is turning messy.
But it was all pretty predictable.
Think about it.
Imagine your neighbors going through a divorce but trying to live and work together for a full year after the breakup all while the wife gushes about how much she can't wait to move in with her new partner. Impossible, right? But that's basically what we're asking Syracuse, Pittsburgh and the Big East to do until Syracuse and Pittsburgh can get on with their lives and start competing in the ACC in 2013-14. So nobody should be surprised that everybody is trying to screw everybody else, and that the fighting has turned public. Because this is, after all, the way divorces tend to go.
From ESPN.com's Andy Katz ...
The night before Friday's release of the pairings for the 12-game challenge, which listed Syracuse playing at Arkansas, Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross wrote in an email to Big East colleagues that the Orange are "overcommitted and can't play at this point."Meantime, Pittsburgh is undercommitted.
The Panthers figured they'd get a home game from the SEC-Big East Challenge because they played a road game at Tennessee last season. They even held a spot for it. But the Big East surprised school officials this week when it informed them that Jamie Dixon's Panthers wouldn't be part of the Challenge. So now Syracuse is trying to get out of a game it doesn't want, Pittsburgh is trying to get a game it thought it had, and even Deion and Pilar Sanders must think this divorce between Syracuse, Pittsburgh and the Big East is turning messy.
But it was all pretty predictable.
Think about it.
Imagine your neighbors going through a divorce but trying to live and work together for a full year after the breakup all while the wife gushes about how much she can't wait to move in with her new partner. Impossible, right? But that's basically what we're asking Syracuse, Pittsburgh and the Big East to do until Syracuse and Pittsburgh can get on with their lives and start competing in the ACC in 2013-14. So nobody should be surprised that everybody is trying to screw everybody else, and that the fighting has turned public. Because this is, after all, the way divorces tend to go.
