What's interesting is that a number of sports people out here are saying  that, if Temple gets into the Big East,it will expedite the departure of teams currently looking to leave the conference and spur other teams (Notre Dame was mentioned), to start looking .
 
The general consensus is  also that,if the BCS stays,the Big East will be losing its automatic bid.

I'll truly miss making the drive from Wellesley to Philly to see the Cats beat the birds in front of an 85% empty Linc.

That would be great if the Big East had ANY cachet at all. As it stands, they have none. give us the benjamins.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7656299/temple-football-play-big-east-2012-season-source-says

Sounds like it's official. I'll miss the automatically "W" we could always put on the schedule at the beginning of the year.

I'm not exactly sure what Temple's hurry is to...

a.) join a conference that is walking on thin ice to begin with

b). REjoin a conference that gave them the dropkick a few years ago because they weren't good enough.

And at a price of 6 million to do it.

"After Temple’s dismissal from the Big East, the Owls were an independent for two seasons before joining the Mid-American Conference in 2007. Temple will pay the MAC $6 million to leave with less than one year's notice, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, more than double what MAC by-laws require teams to pay ($2.5 million) with two year’s notice. Temple also must pay the Atlantic 10, where its Olympic sports compete, $1 million to leave after next season. It would have cost $2 million to leave before this season."

I too will miss what has become a near automatic win. Among conference foes, we have by far our best record against them, having won 80% of our games against them (2nd place is Kent State, against whom we've won 62.5% of our games). I won't miss their **** fans.

I agree with Paul Graham on this one.  As I stated elsewhere, I really enjoyed our games with Temple.  In the few short years we played them, I feel they became our best rivalry game.  It was always fun to watch.  Of course we still have the Red Chickens, but after that I could care less about the rest of the MAC schools.  Trying to get excited about Akron, Can't State, BUGS or the others is like trying to get excited about watching your mother fry chicken.  Sorry, but we lost something with Temple's departure.  Just my $.02.

Selfishly I hope we can develop a rivalry with UMASS, simply because I think there is a great story to tell on an ESPN broadcast (looks in anorris' direction) regarding the founding of OHIO in the Bunch of Grapes Tavern on State Street in Boston.

Wouldn't it be a great open to a broadcast to have the Ohio Bobcats bus and the entire team and staff in front of the plaque that commemorates the founding of OHIO at this site, getting a history lesson about OHIO's ties to Boston, and then transition to the open of the broadcast crew launching this new rivalry at Gillette?

UMASS may only be around for one year due to the MAC's out clause, but for one night that would make for pretty cool TV, and give most OHIO alumnus a history lesson as well.  And let's face it, Miami doesn't really care much about FB right now, so that is hardly a rivalry at this point.