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If the B12 invited WVU, UConn, Cincy, Rutgers and Ville would that solve the problem?
Would they invite UConn in that scenario or would they prefer USF?
Please folks. Stop it w/ this crap. The big 12 is up ts creek, and WVU is holdingthe paddle. They are going to try anything to give the appearance of a viable, stable confernce. They are NOT.
I know that the ESPN empire has done nothing to talk about what has happened this week with Big East football, but the fact that the Naval Academy just gave up independence to join the Big East for football, is GINORMOUS.
THe exit fee from the big east now for any football program is $10mill. The league stands to have a full slate of membership of 12 teams, with legal rigth to WVU's scheduling through 2013, with two divisions east/west and a championship game in New York City.
If WVU manages to buy out, it will put multiple millions of dollars into the big east programs pockets, and there will be room to fill on the schedule for a year.
THe league on Tue, made it clear that expansion is not over.
Big East football programs are going nowhere anymore, and the big east is going to get stronger than ever, and that conference that Notre Dame would/will eventually end up in? Just became much more likely to be the Big East. ESPN isn't going to want anyone to grasp that.
I don't know how else to say it. The leadership at the Naval Academy is not going to agree to join a conference - ANY conference, unless they have done their homework, and done it well. The Naval Academy and the big east have been looking at joining for longer than UConn has been playing 1-A football.
The concept that Navy would eventually join a conference for football is not new, they've been looking at it for a long time. The fact they chose the big east for their football home speaks volumes - the most important is that theyv'e got confidence that the leadership will put top value on football, and if the Naval Academy think the big east finally gets the importance of football - thn you know what ...
EVERYBODY knows that the big east FINALLY gets the importance of football. We've got some of the best leadership inthe country in this athletic conference, and they're finally in line where tey need to be with priorities. We're goign to be just fine mving forward.
WVU, Cuse and Pitt made their beds. They're not going to want to lay there when this is all done, but you live with what you do.