Navy/Air Force > Syracuse/Pitt

Good stuff on Eric Crawford's blog today. He notes, among other things, that the Big East's Sagarin rating would actually improve if Navy and Air Force were current members and the Orange and Panthers were not.

Add TCU and Temple, that number improves even more. Get even more creative with two more additions (Houston/Iowa State?) and it snowballs from there. I nodded along quite a bit especially reading his last point.

If you step outside the group-think and the echo chamber for a minute, you can see the situation for the Big East doesn't need to be so dire. In some ways you can even call it exciting.