Article: BC fans are the winners with Big East's split decision

Common sense prevailed yesterday. The Big East will create a split feed Saturday to enable the Boston College-West Virginia game to be on Channel 5 at noon.

Virginia-Virginia Tech, pitting fierce rivals who are nationally ranked, had been scheduled to be the sole Big East telecast, but one school is not in the conference, and who really cares about the game outside that state?

"We talked to Channel 5 and some other places," said Joe Gomes of the Big East in explaining the split, which was used once before this season, Oct. 22, when Miami-West Virginia was added to the Rutgers-BC coverage. (Whenever the Big East can show the Hurricanes, it does.)

The Big East map also is being changed, with ...

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