GOOD PLACES TO TRACK THE BIG EAST/ACC DEBACLE: Various sports pages who are giving a crap about this:

The Louisville Courier-Journal: Louisville being the school most mentioned as a replacement for the defectors.

The Hartford Courant: Has probably devoted the most coverage, due to the fact that the UConn football team would be getting the biggest shaft of all if the Big East collapses, since they just went Division I and built a new stadium and everything.

The Boston Globe: Has some stuff some times, but clearly isn't all that concerned. I think the Breakers gets as much press as the Eagles.

The Charlotte Observer: Has had the ear of somebody in the ACC a couple times during all this.

That's where I've been going. Curiously, the Miami Herald has not appeared to care at all about this issue. I mean, almost nothing; no interview with Donna Shalala, just a couple of Rutgers jokes. One gets the impression that the Hurricanes are more of a national brand than anything the citizens of Miami could care about.