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It's funny that anyone would even want to get into the Big East at this point.
I really enjoy your posts. Please, give us some more thoughts on your opinion of UConn and the Big East.
This type of blase attitude toward expansion is part of what has really helped destroy the Big East. If the conference had expanded to 10-12 football teams say 4 years ago with UCF, East Carolina and whoever it would have given a chance for rivalries with the new schools to develop. UCF and East Carolina would have benefitted recruiting wise from already being BCS schools and their progams would be more advanced and with this added strength the defections of PITT and Syracuse would not have hurt so bad or maybe not have happened.Are UCF, Houston and SMU going anywhere? What the heck is the hurry?
Are UCF, Houston and SMU going anywhere? What the heck is the hurry?
Agree. I mean, you have to agree with this statement, because frankly, it's all one can do. Whatever league is formed will have absolutely no stability, but that is unavoidable. Every single participant wants out. But that doesn't mean we do nothing. Re-compose this thing and move forward.Is USF really willing to go down with the Titanic? Don't they realize that once the dismantleing of the Big East is complete, that they could be on the outside looking in? After all of the bluster of Tuesday that the remaining Big East schools pledged to rebuild this conference, you're going to throw out one of the best viable candidates out with the bath water? If conference realignment has reached a temporary plateau, & the current membership really wants to make a go of it to not lose their BCS autobid, it time for the remaining schools to literally take the Bulls by their proverbial horns & look out for the common good: Add UCF, Houston, & SMU, call it a day, & go on with business.
This!The BIG East conference, always reactive, never proactive.....and it has really hurt the conference.
Posters have asked what the BE (Tranghese/Marinatto) could have done proactively to save the league. That was one thing. Get the BB schools to understand that without a legit FB league, there will one day not be a BB leage.
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Please explain "no one will be invited"?There is no hurry, no one will be invited--unless the lawyers are hashing out totally new agreements never before seen in college sports. The bball schools are never going to tie themselves to a bunch of schools that will insist on more than football only. Ain't gonna happen. Because if schools like Louisville, UConn, RU and WV leave, there's no chance the bball onlies will want to preserve affiliation with the remaining ffball schools.
Still ain't near what they've had. My entire posts addresses things the BE could have done going back 10+ years ago when they actually had a hand to play. Now, we got no hand to play, all we have is to hope that someone in the league office is a Jedi and can make it rain.What were they going to use a Jedi mind trick? It's not even close to true. The 7 (or 8) Catholics plus Butler, Xavier, St. Joe's, whoever else you want to dig up are a very legitimate basketball league.
Please explain "no one will be invited"?
I agree and this is a problem. For anyone who thinks the hybrid model hasn't hurt the football league see this.Football onlies will be invited. They won't invite for all sports. The Catholics won't risk tying themselves to schools they have no interest in for the long-term.
Agree. Therefore the Big East will be settling for mediocrity, instead of becoming the best conference it can be given the teams still out there.Football onlies will be invited. They won't invite for all sports. The Catholics won't risk tying themselves to schools they have no interest in for the long-term.
This!
The BE could have at the very least attempted to do so many things to save this league, beginning with the early 200'2 the BE had a legitimate opportunity to be proactive and beat the ACC to the punch. Miami was getting antsy, FSU and GT could have been "had" if the league was looking ahead 10-15 years.
Then again in '04/'05 when Marquette and DePaul were invited to join just to "keep the balance". Anyone who didn't see that the go forward money maker in college athletics was all about football is an absolute idiot, and would probably be qualified for 1 job in this world - working in the BE offices.
Posters have asked what the BE (Tranghese/Marinatto) could have done proactively to save the league. there are 2 things, and there are so many more I'd be willing to guess. They failed at getting the BB schools to understand that without a legit FB league, there will one day not be a BB leage.They failed at it because they didn't see it. Perkins did, but they didn't.
They weren't proactive when they could have been on several occassions, we didn't go act but rather reacted, and here we sit today.
But hey, what do I know. I just can't wait for those conference FB games with Navy, Nova, Memphis, UMass, and Air Force. Yayyyyy.
those weren't proposals. those are 2 specific opportunities the league had to act differently but didn't.If you actually think you just made two concrete proposals, I don't know what to say.