East Carolina to Join Big East 2014 For Football

[gwhuskyfan]

Pete Thamel ‏@SIPeteThamel
BREAKING: East Carolina will join Big East as football-only in 2014. Tulane in all sports

 

[husky210]

Holy crap

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Navy has bailed.

 

[MattMang23]

GET US THE OUT. NOW!

 

[Dann]

ppl need to start listening to me

 

[epark88]

Sigh.

Check, please...

 

[Jericho]

East Carolina finally gets their invite. Just like the ugly girl who just hangs around. Eventually, someone will give in. Way to go Big East (Although in all seriousness, it is a good football school).

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Their 80,000 applications finally were approved.

 

[phillionaire]

so are they adding these teams cuz we're about to leave, or because of rutgirls leaving?

 

[Vowelguy]

Tulane????????????

 

[junglehusky]

@Mengus22
Can we just note that all of these folks on twitter with sources everywhere never had a clue this was coming?

 

[husky210]

Their 80,000 applications finally were approved.

They kept getting rejected because they spelled something wrong.

 

[MattMang23]

Yeah they couldn't spell E.C.U.

 

[emshorts]

• PN Brett McMurphy
  East Carolina will join Big East as football only member in 2014, sources told @ESPN
  3 minutes ago
• 
  McMurphyESPN Brett McMurphy
  Big East 2014 membership will consist of 8 former members from C-USA, 2 from MWC and 1 from MAC

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Seriously if we don't land somewhere else we might as well move down to the CAA.

 

[MattMang23]

• PN Brett McMurphy
  East Carolina will join Big East as football only member in 2014, sources told @ESPN
  3 minutes ago
• 
  McMurphyESPN Brett McMurphy
  Big East 2014 membership will consist of 8 former members from C-USA, 2 from MWC and 1 from MAC

And one who's only been a member of the Big East (for their whole Div 1A life), UConn. I'm giddy...

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Some humor...

Andy Glockner ‏@AndyGlockner
"Hi, we're CUSA. What are we worth on TV?" "About $750,000 a team." "OK, we're now the Big East." "Oh, OK. Now you're worth $8M a team."

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

so are they adding these teams cuz we're about to leave, or because of rutgirls leaving?

Hmmm, the 2 scenarios are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

 

[HuskyHawk]

so are they adding these teams cuz we're about to leave, or because of rutgirls leaving?

This seems like a reaction to losing at least two all sports programs, plus several FB only. I think Aresco knows that our western teams are opting for the MWC. Navy could be gone as well.

I said for months that this NBE would never even exist. It made no sense whatsoever. These moves finally make sense. Rutgers and hopfully UConn move on, and the old CUSA (which wasn't a bad league) is reunited and maybe added to the BE basketball schools.

Louisville, Cincy, USF, UCF, Temple, Tulane, Memphis, Houston, SMU. Aside from Temple, it is a league of mostly southern, urban schools. They do fit together.

 

[Vowelguy]

So, is it 14 for FB now?

UConn - Temple - Lou - Cin - UCF - USF - Navy*
Memp - Houston - SMU - Tul - ECU* - Boise* - SD St*

and 17 for BB?
(G't, Vill, SH, SJ, Prov, DeP, Marq)

 

[coachcap]

Shows the power of television markets. Tulane (UConn alum as president, major television market, playes in Superdome) which has done NOTHING forever, get the nod over Southern Mississippi which is a credible program but resides in Hattiesburg which is the football equivalent of Siberia.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Shows the power of television markets. Tulane (UConn alum as president, major television market, playes in Superdome) which has done NOTHING forever, get the nod over Southern Mississippi which is a credible program but resides in Hattiesburg which is the football equivalent of Siberia.

Tulane's been awful for almost forever, but they're finally sinking some of their big dinero into a new on campus stadium. Not so sure that will matter much, but it cannot hurt. The New Orleans TV market is clearly larger than Hattieburg's, but is it really all that big?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I would be shocked if sdsu and Boise go to MWC. The MWC TV deal is the worst one in the history of sports. I dont think BE is done. There will be wester additions imo.

 

[tzznandrew]

I would be shocked if sdsu and Boise go to MWC. The MWC TV deal is the worst one in the history of sports. I dont think BE is done. There will be wester additions imo.

I agree.

I think they're expecting UConn (or Louisville) to be out, and are restocking the cabinets before it happens.

 

[huskymedic]

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