Look, no one cared that Rutgers made it into the Big 10 until the Big 10 looked like it was becoming one of only 2 viable power conferences and Pitt started looking like it was going to be screwed out of a place in the hierarchy of college athletics solely to the timing and circumstances of its conference affiliation. In fact, when Pitt was invited to the B12, and subsequently the ACC, Pitt tried to bring WVU and Rutgers with it. They were the three schools that saw eye-to-eye regarding football in the Big East and had been working together to try to strengthen things. But no one has any delusions of the comparative athletic histories of the two schools, to the idea that Rutgers will be included among a top echelon of college athletics, when Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia (and heck, even BC) may not be, well, that is tough for a lot of people to square based on their respective athletic histories.