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bilsu

Quote from: brewcity77 on September 21, 2011, 07:50:09 AM
I can't say I'm really relieved by this news (assuming it's even accurate). Every time I hear the Big East will remain together, all I can think is that there's an unstated "until..." at the end of the headline. Half our membership would fall all over themselves to be part of the ACC, SEC, or Big 10. Hell, I think UConn and Rutgers would probably join the PAC-12 if offered.
Why half our membership probalby would, the reality is that we have a lot of football teams that nobody else wants. That is the Big East's saving grace.

TallTitan34

Quote from: MUMac on September 21, 2011, 07:28:43 AM
I did not read any reference to basketball.  This was football only.  It was a meeting of just the football schools - no basketball schools were included.  That does not give me the warm and fuzzies.

MUMac....

Marinatto said each member pledged to remain in the conference and the membership -- including Notre Dame and the seven other non-football members -- is committed to aggressively recruiting replacements for Syracuse and Pittsburgh, though he would not indicate which schools are candidates.

MUMac

Quote from: TallTitan34 on September 21, 2011, 08:41:22 AM
MUMac....

Marinatto said each member pledged to remain in the conference and the membership -- including Notre Dame and the seven other non-football members -- is committed to aggressively recruiting replacements for Syracuse and Pittsburgh, though he would not indicate which schools are candidates.

Saw the ND part, missed the rest of that sentenced.  My bad.

I still, though, have the concerns that the meeting was football only.  I suspect it was because those are the ones likely to bail.  The article does not give me comfort for the long term viability of the BE for MU.

Benny B

Quote from: universitypark on September 21, 2011, 08:29:59 AM
If replacement schools means the service academies or UCF the conference is already dead.

If the goal here is to maximize the marketability of a conference (and yes, that's what is driving re-alignment) adding the #19 TV market and the largest "alumni" bases (pun intended) in the nation is hardly an indicator of a dead conference.

Quote from: LittleMurs on January 08, 2015, 07:10:33 PM
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny.  Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.

MUMac

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Quote from: Benny B on September 21, 2011, 09:56:22 AM
If the goal here is to maximize the marketability of a conference (and yes, that's what is driving re-alignment) adding the #19 TV market and the largest "alumni" bases (pun intended) in the nation is hardly an indicator of a dead conference.

Marketability will not increase by adding UCF.  They are not known nationally.  They do not have that great a following locally, either.  Florida, especially Orlando, is a very transient area.  Likely a large amount more Big 10 fans there than there would be BE fans.  The biggest draw, though, is UF followed by FSU.  UCF is a USF afterthought.

Montana Warrior

I don't buy any of this talk of resurrecting the BE as a conference of football and basketball schools and basketball only schools in the same conference.  In the end, stability will be reached when basketball only schools are left out of this conference and it morphs into whatever it will become of football and BB program schools.  Yes, Marquette may be in this mix for a couple more years but the AD's in the basketball only schools had better get proactive while these BB programs are still vital.

jaybilaswho?

Not sure if this was posted in any other threads or not:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576583670319616168.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6

After two high-profile schools departed for the ACC this week, and amid fears they could be left behind during college conference realignment, the Big East finally got some good news late Tuesday night: some stability appears to be on the way.

Conference commissioner John Marinatto said that every remaining Big East school committed to staying in the conference during a meeting of athletic directors and university presidents at a New York hotel.

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Schools That Could End Up Nowhere
Marinatto said the Big East will launch an "aggressive and ambitious" plan to recruit more schools during a hectic time of realignment. The meeting featured only the football-playing schools, but Marinatto said the basketball-playing schools were on a conference call, in which they also pledged allegiance to the conference. TCU, which is scheduled to join the Big East next year, remains committed.

Marinatto stopped short of naming any schools or even saying how many schools he would like to add, though he said the conference has been approached by a number of colleges about entry. He said there was no discussion at the meeting about possible ideas such as merging with another conference, but he said he's had "ongoing discussions" with other conferences.

He said he is pursuing new bylaws that would raise the exit fee for the conference, a move the ACC recently made. Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced over the weekend that they would join the ACC, but they are contractually obligated to stay until 2014. Marinatto said Tuesday he would enforce the contract.

Also Tuesday, the Pac-12 Conference announced that it will remain at 12 members. That decision that may slow or even stop the recent movement across college sports toward 16-team "superconferences." It had been speculated that as many as four members of the Big 12 Conference might join the Pac-12, which could have led to the breakup of the Big 12 and further realignment elsewhere.

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