Big East Expansion Update: 5 Schools Reportedly To Be Added Wed., Temple An Option If Air Force Balks?
by Patrick_the_Ruminator on Dec 6, 2011 1:17 PM EST
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PrintAs we told you about yesterday, the Big East is 'very close' to adding Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, Central Florida and SMU to the conference. They will join the conference in 2013. It was only speculation yesterday that these schools would be added this week. Now, CBS Sports' Brett McMurphy is reporting that the five schools will be added on Wednesday. Boise State and San Diego State would join the conference as football only members. The other three schools would be full members.
Stay tuned to Big East Coast Bias for additional news on expansion by checking our Big East Expansion section and if things turn south, well check out the Big East Falls Apart section, too.
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Is it telling that Temple achieved more progress outside the Big East than as a member?
Orange you glad it's not football season?
Not really.
They wouldn’t want back in so bad if they thought it wouldn’t be a good thing.
"Tracers work both ways" ~US Army Ordnance
Temple... If you're desperate
Then you can deal with their constant pissing and moaning that they are ‘too good for you’ and should ‘move up’
Pitt, Syracuse, WVU
Your new (football) conference, as of 2013:
UConn
Rutgers
Cincinnati
Louisville
South Florida
Central Florida
Boise State
San Diego State
SMU
Houston
Thoroughly enjoying life atop whatever conference UConn is in today.
by Kevin Meacham on Dec 6, 2011 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
Wow, I didn't realize it had gotten that bad.
Has the writing been on the wall since the initial ACC raid, or was the conference doomed from the moment it failed to bring Penn State into the fold in the early 90’s?
My anti-drug is football, because sometimes it is a better hallucinogen than anything you can get at Burning Man. - Spencer Hall 9/28/11
by car.full.of.midgets on Dec 7, 2011 8:24 AM EST up reply actions
in retrospect, it seems like it was doomed from the beginning
FSU to the ACC and Penn State to the Big Ten were pretty much the impetus for creating Big East football (because operating as an independent was becoming more difficult), but it’s difficult to see how the original vision of the Big East could work as a football conference without Penn State. Though really the killer was the SEC adding South Carolina and Arkansas to start the conference championship games in I-A. If not for that, the ACC might have added a tenth, but would never have gone beyond that.
Better UNLV or UNM than temple.
Then SDSU could join as an all sports member with some travelling partners. They have a great bball program that would be a great impact on the conference.
"Tracers work both ways" ~US Army Ordnance
if sdsu joins, why not unlv? heck, why not UCLA?!
Orange you glad it's not football season?
by SUMB44 on Dec 7, 2011 1:16 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
What do you guys thing about the Championship game in NYC?
I prefer to have the school with the best record host a la Pac 12, CUSA, etc.
Go Knights! Go Boilers! Go 'Noles! Not necessarily in that order.
Playing in the Bronx is a terrible idea.
It’s not even a football stadium. I also disagree with New York City for a football championship when will have only 2 Northeastern teams in a league of 12+. And, if they really must play in the area, it should be in a more traditional location like the Meadowlands-a real football facility-used by the Jets and Giants. It has a larger capacity and makes the conference look less pretensious and phony.
by Green Bull on Dec 6, 2011 7:07 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I agree.
It should at least be in the Meadowlands. What about bringing it south? New Orleans, Jacksonville, Miami, etc. Being new to the BE, I’m guessing the admin wants to keep everything in the NE. I guess we’ll see how it works out.
Go Knights! Go Boilers! Go 'Noles! Not necessarily in that order.
by UCFBoilerNole on Dec 6, 2011 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
Very unlikely it goes south
I think it should go to the home field of the highest ranked team.
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by seton hall and steelers on Dec 6, 2011 8:39 PM EST up reply actions
The Big East Championship
will never ever sell out a stadium like the meadowlands… probably wouldn’t sell out yankee stadium either.
For the sake of the conference, if they ever even make it to 12, they need to have the highest ranked team host the game. They’re not going to come anywhere close to selling out a neutral location.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Dec 7, 2011 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
The game can be held in NY, if the Big East wants this to be not only representative of the ACC, but also the Big East
Personally, the home site of the team with the better conference record, then Head to head, then BCS ranking should be the location of the championship game.
Go Bulls!
why you are not ;ooking at southern mississippi is beyond me,,,they
are better at the revenue sports==baseball, basketball, football,,, then many of the crappy teams you are adding…
with this line up, you are going to lose aq anyway
since when is baseball a revenue sport?
Orange you glad it's not football season?
by SUMB44 on Dec 7, 2011 1:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
It's not.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Dec 7, 2011 3:17 PM EST up reply actions
Speak for yourselves
LSU makes money off of baseball and has a glittering new park that sells out.
by Patrick_the_Ruminator on Dec 7, 2011 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Boise State
alone is enough to allow them to keep AQ. That is, if AQ wasn’t going to go completely away, anyway.
Though So. Miss would be better than temple from a football standpoint.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Dec 7, 2011 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Southern Miss
Is in the middle of SEC country.
by Green Bull on Dec 7, 2011 4:31 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
This is the Big East. All about market size.
Back in 1979, the league was set up with a school in each TV market on the East Coast. ESPN loved it. CBS and their big affiliates in NY, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston loved it. Much hardwood glory followed.
Fast forward to 2011, obsession with market size is why Southern Methodist is in and not East Carolina.
I'll believe it when I see it.
No doubt BE leadership will screw this up. How long will will the current members be willing to fly that far west?
With the pending changes to the BCS system, why would these schools want to move now?
"That's no moon..."
"Now you will wittness the fire-power of this fully armed and operational Death Orange..."
For Houston, SMU and UCF, they will make a lot more
Even if the BE football package only amounts to $2-3M a team, the all-sports members will see an upgrade from $1-1.5M a year to $5M-$10M a year.
Do any of the new schools play lacrosse? I know Navy does, but unsure about those out west.
Orange you glad it's not football season?
by SUMB44 on Dec 7, 2011 1:18 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Air Force does
"That's no moon..."
"Now you will wittness the fire-power of this fully armed and operational Death Orange..."
by Benny The Red on Dec 7, 2011 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
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