Louisville ?

Talent alone has never been enough in college football, just look at Michigan vs. App. St. And I dont think it is the coaching I think Louisvill just has a soft defense.

i think your first statement tells you all you need to know... "Brian Brahm, good wide outs, decent runnning attack!" well no where in there did you mention a decent defense. They've put up over 30 points the last two weeks, but if you can't defend anyone you're not gonna win too many games.

When a guy throws for 423 yards on 17 completions it shows that your defense is soft. You have to worry when Brohm has to throw 65 times that something may be wrong.

This loss really hurts west virginia. Their soft schedule is losing credibility because louisville was their best opponent and they are not as good as we thought

I think that you are right about this hurting west virginia, now we will just hear about how weak the west virginia schedule is even more than before. I dont think that the schedule is that weak compared to other teams in the top 5 I wrote an article about this same thing

Maybe it's time to admit that I wasn't wrong when I said that Big East fans need to stop whining about their conference not getting any credit. But hey - West Virginia sure looked great beating the crap out of ECU! Brohm is legit, their offense is legit, but they can't play defense. If you can't play defense, you can't win. Like you said. The Big East isn't that great.

Hey, if you think "defense wins championships" is dead, just look at the teams in the running for the championships. My rankings LSU, USC, OU, FL, WVU. All of them look like they have pretty stout defenses. ASwaff, I can't wait till we meet. Hope you go undefeated untill then. Good luck everyone. Boomer Sooner!

first year of new head coach, that lost key players on D, whose D has been coordinated so-so at best for the past 4 years by Mike Cassity. as a fan I was hoping they'd unload him for the new regime but that didn't happen. what has happened is that their D is even more laughable now than ever, in fact it may be the worst college Defense of all time. stink, stank, stunk. their pre-season ranking was based on potential b/c well obviously their O keeps rolling along like a juggernaut, but they also have a ton of new talent on D, but look what they did in their first 2 games this year, sure they won 73-10 vs Murray St but hey barely eeked it out vs Middle Tennessee State! I can't say I'm shocked they are now 2-2, you can't be a dominating team every single year, the new coaching staff will take some time to work out the kinks

I'm glad you think you can judge the whole big east just because Louisville is struggling.

Its quite possible that every other Big East team has improved from last year (WVU, Rutgers, Cincinnati, South Florida) Heck, this means even SYRACUSE improved somewhat...

All you can do is defeat the teams on your schedule. No amount of anti-Big East whining should allow a 1-loss team to get in the NCG over an undefeated WVU... Rutgers, maybe (which is entirely due to the preseason polls since I think they could very well beat WVU)

this is the reason they play the game!! lets just wait and see how the bowls play out. maybe the big east will go undefeated in the bowls AGAIN. not that it would make any difference to all the big east haters. by no means am i calling the big east the BEST conference but i dont think you can call the the worst either. like ASWAFF said it is early in the season so lets just keep writing and see how it plays out