ESPN | Sources: 7 leaning to leave Big East

[Aughnanure]

..."24 to 48 hours."

Sources: 7 leaning to leave Big East
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/8742607/seven-catholic-schools-leaning-leaving-big-east-sources-say

Sources said Wednesday it's becoming "more likely" the basketball schools will break away from the league's football members.

It's unknown if they would attempt to dissolve the league or leave the league as a group. The league can be dissolved by vote of the league members by a two-thirds majority, according to Big East by-laws. With all of the Big East's recent defections, there are only 10 members (the seven non-FBS schools plus Cincinnati, UConn and South Florida) that can vote on the league dissolving.

A source told ESPN Wednesday, Temple, as a football-only member, has voting rights, but can't vote on dissolution of the league. With Temple unable to vote, that gives the seven basketball schools enough votes to dissolve the league.

Sources said there are multiple legal entanglements that make the voting situation "complex."

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A Big East source from a football-playing school, told ESPN Sunday, "the basketball schools are not thrilled with Tulane" and "would have fallen off the ledge if we would have added East Carolina as a full member."

Williams acknowledged he was "not pleased" specifically about adding Tulane.

"I was not pleased that we issued an invitation to Tulane without any diligence to what effect that would have on our basketball product, the draw on our RPI and other such things," Williams told 540 ESPN Milwaukee. "I was disappointed that I wasn't able to participate as a member of the conference in the deliberation that went into adding that."

Williams added that the Big East's other non-football schools felt the same way.

"Part of this is just everybody's uneasy with all these questions that everybody's got in their own minds," Williams told 540 ESPN Milwaukee. "There was something really cool about the Big East. You could rely on it to get six or eight or nine bids in a year.

"It was home. Now that home has been sort of changed, and somebody came and put new furniture in, and boy, do we still fit here is what everyone is sort of thinking about."

[cheebs09]

Good to see Larry as the prominent quote in that article. If he turns out to be a strong leader in this Basketball-only conference (which it seems like), that would be a big feather in his cap.

I'm pretty excited about the prospects of the conference. It won't be the old Big East, but I think it can be competitive and build some nice rivalries.

[WarriorDoc]

"UConn president Susan Herbst has contacted officials from the non-FBS Big East members, pleading with them to stay in the league, sources told ESPN."

Doesn't get any better than that.  I hope UConn gets left in the dust for the stunt they pulled, whoring them out to the ACC for the past few years.

Can anyone comment on what may happen with Cincy, UConn, USF, and Temple?  I doubt the ACC wants USF or Temple.  And if UConn and Cincy don't make the TV revenue any bigger for the ACC, why would they bother taking them?

[TJ]

"UConn president Susan Herbst has contacted officials from the non-FBS Big East members, pleading with them to stay in the league, sources told ESPN."

Doesn't get any better than that.  I hope UConn gets left in the dust for the stunt they pulled, whoring them out to the ACC for the past few years.

Can anyone comment on what may happen with Cincy, UConn, USF, and Temple?  I doubt the ACC wants USF or Temple.  And if UConn and Cincy don't make the TV revenue any bigger for the ACC, why would they bother taking them?

They could just re-form their football conference.  Cincy, UConn, Temple, USF, Memphis, Boise, SDSU, SMU, Tulane, ECU, UCF, Houston, Navy.  It's wacky, but its a conference.

Or

Temple can try to get back into the A10; BSU & SDSU back to Mountain West; everyone else forms CUSA II.  UConn & Cincy are stuck begging for a major conference to add them, and when that doesn't work they can either join CUSA II or join the new basketball conference and find a home for their football, like CUSA II.

[sailwi]

I love that UConn is trying to hold the BE together after they have done everything to try and get to the ACC, nothing like trying to male lemonade out of lemons.

[🏀]

Adios!

Who know what school I really hate after all this? Temple.

Suck it, Bill Cosby.

[T-Bone]

Suck it, Bill Cosby.

[TJ]

Adios!

Who know what school I really hate after all this? Temple.

Suck it, Bill Cosby.

What makes you hate Temple in this?

[brewcity77]

What makes you hate Temple in this?

I'd guess their desperation attempt to bully us into staying by saying they have a vote when the league bylaws make it pretty clear they don't.

I'd still take them with their football program parked. Seems to make more sense having strong teams like them with us than forcing them to C-USA or the MAC.

[TJ]

I'd guess their desperation attempt to bully us into staying by saying they have a vote when the league bylaws make it pretty clear they don't.

I'd still take them with their football program parked. Seems to make more sense having strong teams like them with us than forcing them to C-USA or the MAC.

Desperate move by a desperate school that knows it's about to get screwed.  I can't really blame them for trying.  Just about to get back in to the conference that they wanted to be in and having it ripped away from them just before they could.  UConn has been far, far worse in all of this.  I feel bad for all the new members, but this is certainly the best possible move for the C7.