John Feinstein/WaPost: BE basketball schools should go it alone

[Rumrunner]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...o-basketball/2011/10/07/gIQAvjxuTL_story.html


He advocates bb schools split, pickup up some others and call it a day.

 

[coachcap]

It was the topic du jour. Len Robbins said the same thing in Friday's New York Post & I've seen it published elsewhere as well.

 

[huskypantz]

They'd have to disband the Big East - they can't kick the football schools out. The remaining football schools aren't leaving the name with the BCS bid still attached and income coming from TV and the NCAA.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

They'd have to disband the Big East - they can't kick the football schools out. The remaining football schools aren't leaving the name with the BCS bid still attached and income coming from TV and the NCAA.

I believe the football and basketball schools put a "no fault divorce" agreement in place after the 2003 raid that addresses all this stuff. The football and basketball schools could have split any time they wanted.

 

[uconNYC]

So get rid of two of the most historic basketball programs (UConn and UL) and 2 others that are perennial Sweet 16 contenders (WVU and Cincy)? Also UConn and UL along with ND have the strongest athletics programs in the Big East. The olympic sports will be at A10 level - ask the Catholic schools' Soccer, FieldHockey and Baseball coaches if they would want that.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Unlike UConn, the basketball schools do not need to be in a rush. They have a healthy fallback position of splitting and adding Butler and Xavier any time they want. When JTIII or Wright walks into a recruits living room, they can say with a straight face that they will be in a major conference no matter what happens.

 

[alexd]

"Healthy position"???....I can just hear the recruits parents asking.."so, you won't be playing Cuse?...how about UCONN???...L-Ville or Pitt???."...Head coach: "Don't worry, we're trying to convince Butler to join the league"...what's that?...NCAA tourney?. Well, we're not quite sure how many bids we'll be able to grab since we're no longer officially a BCS power conference. And national TV?. We're working on that. It seems ESPN was most interested in showing the "big" schools that left the conference" We're hopefull to get a bunch of mid-week games on Comcast.net."

Exageration? Yes. But these things are all issues.

 

[RS9999X]

Wrong attitude.
The Big East is a scheduling arrangement.
The addition of Navy for football only solidifies that.
Should Football have a separate contract? Well, it does now. Keep it that way.
The question remains. What are the best 8 or 9 football teams to field assuming WVU is gone?s.
Boise and Navy for Football only? Houston and ECU and UCF and SMU for all sports?
Fine. Get on with it.