The Big East is watching, and not in a casual way anymore.

The conference which East Carolina sports fans, coaches, administrators and athletes have long thought to be a perfect home for the Pirates is thinking about ECU, undoubtedly trying to picture what the Pirates might look like as a new member of its family.

The Big East, one of the NCAA’s six leagues aligned with the highly-coveted Bowl Championship Series in football, lost two of its mainstay programs to the Atlantic Coast Conference last week and is once again scrambling to maintain any true football identity.

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