The Big East Needs To Be Ruthless Too

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As I've mentioned before, the head man at FedEx said he'd give $100 million to the BCS conference with an AQ that adds Memphis - the Big East should at least explore this option and perhaps try to get a big name football school to join.

Give all the money to one of the following schools to join the BE in all sports for the next 5 to 10 years: ND, Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Florida, LSU, Alabama. If Oklahoma joined, Oklahoma St would come too which would not be a bad thing.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I think we should look eastward and take some teams from Europe. They can also play some hoops in the Slavic countries. Looks like we'll be in Siberia soon enough anyway.

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Evidently you've never visited Syracuse in the winter. Siberia has been in the BE's footprint since the conference began.

 

[BlueMAB]

I have said years ago BE should have added UCF and others. By now, all those programs would be BCS programs just like Cincy, UL and USF. BE was short-sighted and we are where we are. BE should should take a long look at things and just go national. Current realignment really forced the BE to think out of the box which Providence is not known for.

It's not as simple as you make it.

Upgrading those programs doesn't mean they would have had the same success as Cincy and UL. They could have, but there is no reason to assume they would have as you have done. Leaving them were they are helped UCF finish in the top 25 a year ago which helps the Big East now if we add them. There's no reason to assume (since they had a losing record vs. BCS teams) that they would have had the same results playing a BCS schedule last year.

We would have had to split the pot with them, and the BCS bid potentially would be in even greater jeopardy than it is now depending on where the school(s) finished in the rankings. There's no reason to assume success would have followed an upgrade "just because".