Actually, if you add Cincy too, you might as well finish the job and bring UConn, Rutgers and USF for travel purposes.
Actually, if you add Cincy too, you might as well finish the job and bring UConn, Rutgers and USF for travel purposes.
Actually, if you add Cincy too, you might as well finish the job and bring UConn, Rutgers and USF for travel purposes.
Exactly. Why not just take all 6 BE schools and get to 16 if Missouri stays. If Missouri leaves, get BYU and you are at magic 16. It just makes too much sense vs. ripping the BE apart piece by piece.
It will get B12 into the NYC/CT/New England market which is huge.
And would allow them to get everyone for next year without the BE trying to hold on to them. It would be the smartest thing they could do.
I'm not sure USF helps anyone for travel reasons.
Similarly, UConn and Rutgers are far enough from WVU and Cincy to not really add a ton.
Cincy, on the other hand, does make sense to add.
Oklahoma is playing chess and Texas is playing checkers.
It's a great idea, but no one is capable of speaking for the big east football league. Marinatto can't very well be calling the Big 12 to take the BE football schools as a package deal. How does that sit with the onlies? Not very well. So, the only thing JM can do is keep pushing to rebuild the big east. He is hamstrung by the structure of the BE conference. Furthermore, I'm not sure Uconn and RU would even be interested in joining the B12. I would be all in for this, tho.Hartford, Newark, Tampa, Cincy and Louisville are all very easy to get in and out of everyday of the week.
I wouldn't go for a B12 merger because this fiasco would be playing itself out again in six years. But more than that the travel costs for all the sports would be incredible.It's a great idea, but no one is capable of speaking for the big east football league. Marinatto can't very well be calling the Big 12 to take the BE football schools as a package deal. How does that sit with the onlies? Not very well. So, the only thing JM can do is keep pushing to rebuild the big east. He is hamstrung by the structure of the BE conference. Furthermore, I'm not sure Uconn and RU would even be interested in joining the B12. I would be all in for this, tho.