Expansion Rumor - Houston to BE?

by jpb531 on Aug 2, 2025 12:06 PM EDT

I know, I know. The last thing we need is more Big East expansion rumors/talk, but I thought I'd share anyways. I was listening to Kevin Rogers on Sporting News Radio between six and seven EDT and he made a passing mention of the University of Houston to the Big East. No idea if he (Rogers) had any actual info to base his comment on or if it was just idle conjecture on his part as part of some general UH talk - SNR operates out of Houston.

From a personal standpoint, I could get on board with Houston as a Big East member. Houston's a huge television market, which the television execs will like, it gets the conference more exposure into Texas and Houston's had good to great teams in football and basketball. Plus, for the non revenue sports it would work from a travel standpoint to have two teams to play out that way on road trips instead of one. UCF would work from this standpoint as well with USF, but assuming that Villanova is off the table for football I'd rather add another Texas school rather than another Florida school.

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If it is between UCF and Houston

Guess which one would make Mengus need a straitjacket?

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by Patrick_the_Ruminator on Aug 2, 2025 1:12 PM EDT reply actions

To be honest.....

Houston really isn’t a great addition. Small stadium, minimal support in Texas.

by ej6687 on Aug 2, 2025 1:15 PM EDT reply actions

If there were great additions available...

… except via the Big 12 imploding or bribing BC to come back, we’d have added them already. If we don’t want to gamble on something like that, Houston might be less bad than other options (certainly better than ECU or Memphis).

by drothgery on Aug 2, 2025 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Houston has the most potential

of the bunch currently under consideration and has history in both major revenue sports. They are planning to build a new stadium now so I don’t see that as a problem since they would basically be hitting the lottery by getting into a BCS league such as the BE. I could definitely get on board with adding Houston now as an all sports member if they can get the Basketball schools to go along with it.

by HartbeatHusky on Aug 2, 2025 1:49 PM EDT reply actions