Post by CowboyinAmerica on Dec 7, 2011 19:52:49 GMT -5
Seattle - Will they ever stop? In the wake of multiple western U.S. universities joining the Big East, the athletic conference decided to step up its game by becoming the first collegiate conference to extend an official invitation to a professional sports team when it extended the offer to the UFSL’s Seattle Stormtroopers. The officially-signed envelope reached the Seattle offices yesterday, and it caught some of the people by surprise.
“Wait, this is a joke, right?” GM Osuwah asked the crowd of assembled media outside the team’s training facility. “I’m not even sure that this is legal.”
In fact, Osuwah is right. The Big East’s offer is entirely illegal, as teams within the NCAA are not allowed to pay players, unless it’s done in an entirely discreet, under-the-table manner, in which case, it’s totally cool y’all. If the Seattle franchise would decide to join the Big East, the conference would expand to 13 football playing members, only one behind the SEC. And with Seattle joining the conference, the talent level may just be SEC-worthy too.
“Did you seriously just ask if we would be conference champions?” Osuwah responded when asked about his team’s chances in the Big East. “You realize we’re f**king professionals, right? We get paid to do this s**t. This is ridiculous.”
With the slow start of quarterback Landon Carter, ESPN.com Big East blogger Andrea Adelson predicts that the Stormtroopers would finish third in the new Big East in 2012, behind Louisville and Boise State.
