... that Big East media day was last Tuesday and not this Tuesday. After the release on Friday of the USA Today coach's preseason poll, Big East commissioner John Marinatto would probably feel a little like the late Rodney Dangerfield when addressing the media:

"Great fans...great fans...I'm telling you I could use great fans...I'm ok now, but last week I was in rough shape...Why? I looked up our conference's team positions in the pre-eason USA Today coach's poll and found out the only BCS conference getting polled was us! Are you kidding? Last year they didn't even give us give us a position in the top 25! What were we supposed to do—play with ourselves?"

The Big East received only 4.4 percent of the USA Today's 19,175 ...

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