What Would Be Your DREAM/PERFECT Big East?

[bilsu]

Stupid or not, it is an NCAA rule - you need 12 for a championship game.

But a championship game isn't going to be a huge moneymaker for the BE anyway.  To avoid an ACC-like embarrassment, they would likely have to hold it on a campus site somwhere.  The Pac 12 is doing the same thing.

I agree. However, not havaing a champioship game will make you a second rate conference. However, the Big East will never be good enough in football to not be a second rate conference. This all about trying to be what you are not. That is why Notre Dame will never join the Big East in football.

[GGGG]

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you that not having a CG makes you second rate.  The B10 and P10 didn't have one for years.  The B12 did and it broke apart.  CUSA has one and...well...it is truly second rate.

Right now the BE is at 9 football members.  Each football school gets about $3.7 million or so annually.  There is talk that this might triple - let's assume $10 million per school - $90 million for the whole conference.  Does the addition of Kansas, KSU and Mizzou increase this to $120 per year...which is just a break even point?  I'm not sure about that.

[bilsu]

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you that not having a CG makes you second rate.  The B10 and P10 didn't have one for years.  The B12 did and it broke apart.  CUSA has one and...well...it is truly second rate.

Right now the BE is at 9 football members.  Each football school gets about $3.7 million or so annually.  There is talk that this might triple - let's assume $10 million per school - $90 million for the whole conference.  Does the addition of Kansas, KSU and Mizzou increase this to $120 per year...which is just a break even point?  I'm not sure about that.

I am thinking about from a recruiting standpoint. i would think it helps recruiting to have a conference champioship game.  Anything that puts you at a disadvantage in recruiting hurts your competitiveness.