Bennett joins Big Ten Blog

If you are a fan of Big east football, you’ve certainly read Brian Bennett’s Big East blog on ESPN.com’s College Football blog network. If you’re anything like me, you’re a religious reader of the blog.

So when Bennett suddenly announced on Friday afternoon that he was leaving the Big east blog to go help Adam Rittenberg cover the newly revamped Big Ten (or 12, however you care to look at it) it shocked a lot of people, yours truly included.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet BB (as we in the UC football video office refer to him as) a few times. The most notable was in the Rutgers pressbox in 2009, hours before the perfect season kicked off.

Bennett had just finished a story about our new EA Sports video game system that our quarterbacks would use for the first time on that road trip. Brian had interviewed John Sells, UC Video Coordinator, about how the program worked and was being utilized by our program. Our Sports Information Director Ryan Koslen introduced us as “big fans” to BB. He stood and chatted with us for a few minutes before we parted.

So when it came around to getting help for my Journalism seminar class project this quarter, I reached out BB, and told him of the many times we’d crossed paths. He kindly obliged to answer a few questions via e-mail about our project and his view of the field of journalism.

I’m certainly going to miss Brian Bennett’s take on the Big East, but I do wish him well on his new venture in the Big Ten. I’m sure he’ll have a lot to write about there, and he’s damn good at what he does.

Enjoy it Big Ten fans. BB is a good one…and a great guy to boot.