Big East looks toward a tricky future.(The Providence Journal) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: McNamara, Kevin | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Kevin McNamara

PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ The strange, cumbersome composition of the Big East came back to bite it in the end.

The University of Miami and Virginia Tech, two geographic misfits added in the last 12 years to appease football interests, became the first schools to ever leave the Big East when both formally announced Tuesday that they'll move to the Atlantic Coast Conference for the 2004-2005 school year. (Virginia Tech said last Thursday it would...