The Big East expansion groundswell thread

[UtahJazzFan88]

The 7 Catholic schools agree to leave. NCAA will allow them to keep an auto berth in a new league. Poof goes the best college basketball conference.

I'm guessing that means that the football schools will all probably stay instead of going Indy or going to C-USA.

I hope the Big East name stays to the basketball schools, it sounds like those 7 schools are wanting to poach the upper half of the A-10 instead of actually going to the A-10.

[Pelado]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...nt-connecticut

Sources close to the discussions told Sporting News on Friday that one possibility to give the Bearcats and Huskies a home, which is at the early stages of discussion, would be a cross-continent all-sports league involving disenfranchised members of the Big East as well as the most prominent members of the Mountain West.

The proposed entrants would be UConn, Cincinnati, South Florida, Memphis, Temple, Boise State, San Diego State, UNLV, New Mexico and possibly BYU or Central Florida. Such a league would include football programs that are comparable and competitive, as well as extraordinary basketball featuring eight teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last season. NBC Sports Network is likely to be approached to gauge its interest in such a property.

In order to form such a league, however, UConn and Cincinnati would have to make some sort of profound commitment -- perhaps even a “grant of rights” similar to the Big 12’s, meaning they’d lose their media revenue for the length of time if they leave -- to convince the Western schools involved that they would not exit immediately if invited to join the ACC.

[Surfah]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...nt-connecticut

That would be better than the MWC and Big East as currently constituted. I think I'd be okay with BYU joining that conference. Pretty sick hoops. Okay football.

[USUC]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...nt-connecticut

I don't think BYU would sign away their media rights to the extent they are like the Big-12's media rights contract.

[beefytee]

I don't think BYU would sign away their media rights to the extent they are like the Big-12's media rights contract.

Nor would UConn or Cincy. It's not like this new conference is the Big 10 or a conference with Texas.

[San Juan Sun]

The next domino falls: 7 basketball only Big East schools notify commish of formal intent to leave.

[The_Douger]

So does the league basically fall apart and Boise and SDSU crawl back to the MWC?

[San Juan Sun]

So does the league basically fall apart and Boise and SDSU crawl back to the MWC?

Big East message boards have no idea. Actually, they all have their pet scenarios that benefit their own schools at the expense of others. Similar behavior to what killed the BE. Ironic.

Two basic scenarios:

1. BE keeps BSU/SDSU, adds ECU for all sports, and pick off some more MWC teams to make a two division geographical "national" conference.

2. BE loses BSU/SDSU, and reloads as above with C-USA teams, making the C-USA: "We're getting the band back together!" Reunion Tour. MWC reabsorbs BSU/SDSU, maybe expanding a little.

Of course, the sword of Damocles here is that Cincy and UCONN are leaving whatever conference they are in ASAP. BYU is another wildcard. I think the big moves are all but over, and the lower tier are now sorting themselves out. Basicially, there will be 128 or so FBS teams, and each conference that has survived will grow a little. The WAC and BE are dead, IMO.

[Scorcho]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ng-in-football

looks like Big East is trying to develop a Western Division, contacts Fresno and UNLV about football only.

[Green Monstah]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ng-in-football

looks like Big East is trying to develop a Western Division, contacts Fresno and UNLV about football only.

That's silly now that BE has been lumped with the rest of the non-BCS conferences.

[LiveCoug]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ng-in-football

looks like Big East is trying to develop a Western Division, contacts Fresno and UNLV about football only.

Good. Take them.

[YOhio]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ng-in-football

looks like Big East is trying to develop a Western Division, contacts Fresno and UNLV about football only.

Flystripper/SJS are all and

[Jeff Lebowski]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ng-in-football

looks like Big East is trying to develop a Western Division, contacts Fresno and UNLV about football only.

Even low-budget programs like Fresno and UNLV would be nuts to go near the BE at this point. Radioactive.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Flystripper/SJS are all and

The one really smart move Tom and Co. made during this whole mess was to say "No thanks" to the BE.

[Flystripper]

The one really smart move Tom and Co. made during this whole mess was to say "No thanks" to the BE.

Tom and the boys decided to stand on 12 rather than take a hit despite the dealer showing a face card. Not the best play by the book, but it worked out even though it pissed off the players sitting to his left.