Joining the Big East has apparently done something to the powers-that-be at Marquette. Either that or they have a twisted joke working right about now. According to Marquette Hoops, they will not be the Golden Eagles or go back to the Warriors. They are the Gold. They have a copy of the new logo.

Here’s the actual press release.

The Big East will now have the Orange and the Gold. I am now in fear that St. John’s will shorten themselves to the Red, or that Rutgers will follow by dropping “Knights” and simply be the Scarlet.

We just came out of the wilderness of 8 years of Pitt trying to enforce “Pittsburgh,” Go over and give your sympathies.

So Kevin Pittsnogle is looking at possibly going pro. The way he has personally killed Pitt this past year, we can only hope.

Seth Davis has a good piece about the NCAA politics going into moving the 3-point line back from 19′ 9″ to the International line of 20′ 6″. The lane might also get widened, but I wouldn’t count on it. Interesting to learn that it would cost around $15,000 to strip and paint a new line and wider lane. Make the decision soon. Pitt will already have to strip the surface for the new logo.

Ken Pomeroy has some nifty charts on the way the college game has been played. He notes the every slower pace of the games as teams play more and more defense, and the continuing increase in number of 3-point shots per game.

Well, not regarding Boston College, but maybe some other members of the ACC.

The Big East and Atlantic Coast conferences have settled their legal differences over school defections with an agreement worth about $5 million, a newspaper reported Tuesday night.

Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and West Virginia signed off on the agreement, which drops lawsuits between the conferences, their member schools and officers, The Hartford Courant reported on its Web site.

UConn has already received $1 million as its share of the settlement, the newspaper reported, citing documents released Tuesday by the state attorney general’s office in response to a Freedom of Information request.

These are the BE football schools that fought back. Syracuse was never a part of it, because early on they were going to be one of the bolt-ers not a bolt-ee.

A series of rulings and lawsuits ensued. The lawsuit against Miami and Boston College by the four Big East Schools remained standing and was headed to trial before the parties agreed to mediation.

The settlement was finalized April 27 in Rockville Superior Court. It discharges Boston College’s obligation to pay a withdrawal fee required by the Big East constitution.

The Courant, citing unnamed sources, reported that an additional $1 million of the settlement will essentially serve as Boston College’s exit fee and the four Big East schools named in the agreement will share equally in the settlement.

The settlement document does not specify the total settlement amount or how the payment was split between Miami, Boston College and the ACC.

Here’s the article from the Hartford Courant.

Now all that remains is enforcing an unofficial ban against ever playing Boston College again.