Louisville's departure will hurt Big East  Posted: November 29,
2012   Given 'Nova's rough start, it's natural that tickets are
still available. But who will be the big draw once the Great Big
East Exodus is complete?  Realignment chaos continued Wednesday
with news that Louisville will be leaving for the Atlantic Coast
Conference. Our locals keep taking monetary hits. The Big East
is in the midst of negotiating a television contract. Trading
Louisville and Rutgers for East Carolina and Tulane isn't adding
value for football or hoops.  Maybe that's a bigger issue for
Temple than Villanova since the next football contract is
supposed to bring in bigger dollars than basketball. The
defections are costing Temple serious money needed to pay for
athletics on North Broad Street. Villanova - which despite its
Main Line image has a smaller endowment than Drexel - isn't
getting richer from any of this, either, and its future keeps
getting cloudier.  Should Villanova have upgraded to the higher
football level in the ho