The Big East of tomorrow, or shall I say Catholic Collegiate Conference???

[HoopsMalone]

Where is Louisville?  I am not seeing them in this hypo.

[jaybilaswho?]

I'm not talking about the Big East.  I'm talking about college athletics as a whole.  The BCS football schools have no interest in sharing money with the basketball schools or perhaps more importantly being governed by an association made up mostly of basketball only schools or non-BCS schools.  They're hesitant to split off right now because of the NCAA's anti-trust status, money changes everything. 

I gotcha now.

[Aughnanure]

Where is Louisville?  I am not seeing them in this hypo.

I would assume they would head to the SEC, possibly Big 12 depending how it all shakes out. Louisville and Memphis heading to the SEC would be best guess as of right now (if they go to only 14 teams).

South Florida is the one that I would be more confused about. There are so many Florida schools already, they are limited geographically to the SEC and ACC only, and they don't stand out enough in any sport to be strongly desired and aren't at the bottom of the league enough to forget about them. They do have the largest Big East enrollment though if I'm not mistaken.

[GGGG]

Does anyone know which brings in more revenue for the BEast: Football or Basketball?

My first thought would be basketball. If this is correct, then your statement is wrong.

The last figures I saw...and I'm sorry but I cannot find a link...is that the football schools make about $5 million, while the basketball schools make about $1 million.  And this gap is growing.

[GGGG]

Oh, and to address the issue over if the BE would make a proactive move on a school like Penn State, each Big Ten school made an estimated $15 million last year.