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National Signing Day Wrap-Up: Big East

By Kyle Kensing

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‘Tis strange times in Big East Country. The conference is facing the very real possibility of playing 2012 with just seven members, something for which the WAC had to be granted a special exemption. Time for the

peer pressure to crank up on Boise State

(more via

BigEastCoastBias.com

).

And with long-tenured Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano NFL-bound, the conference had a total of 10 years’ experience that their current stops, between the seven guaranteed programs. Syracuse’s Doug Marrone is the Big East’s elder statesman now, and is entering his fourth season.

Oddly — or not, given the conference’s trend — Rutgers won the most recruiting service praise among its Big East brethren. The quick decision to keep Kyle Flood as head coach may or may not translate on the field, but it did help keep Schiano recruits in scarlet.

Read on for the complete breakdown.

Cincinnati

Connecticut

Louisville

Pitt

Rutgers

Syracuse

USF

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