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A surprising blurb buried in Jeff Goodman's article tonight regarding Donnie Jones (former Florida assistant) going from Marshall to Central Florida.

According to sources, Central Florida athletic director Keith Tribble interviewed 10 D-1 head coaches and a half-dozen or so high-level assistants. The job, according to multiple coaches, was attractive due to the school's commitment to the basketball program.

Coaches also said that Tribble mentioned that the Knights are interested in trying to move to the Big East.


http://community.foxsports.com/goodmanonfox/blog/2010/03/28/central_florida_hires_marshalls_jones
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CrimsonNCrean

The dominoes are getting ready to fall.........    The Big East is going to lose 1 to 3 schools... 
"I better walk before they make me run"

Brewtown Andy

Quote from: Tom Crean's Tanning Bed on March 28, 2010, 11:44:42 PM
Coaches also said that Tribble mentioned that the Knights are interested in trying to move to the Big East.


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bamamarquettefan

Yes, we will lose 1 to 3.  Key is we will need to keep enough football schools and need to keep BCS spot in 2014, to retain our spot as the only BCS Conference that also has basketball-only programs.  This is all crucial to Marquette continuing to get 4- and 5-star players and being a truly national program.
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CrimsonNCrean

Quote from: bamamarquettefan on March 29, 2010, 09:03:38 AM
Yes, we will lose 1 to 3.  Key is we will need to keep enough football schools and need to keep BCS spot in 2014, to retain our spot as the only BCS Conference that also has basketball-only programs.  This is all crucial to Marquette continuing to get 4- and 5-star players and being a truly national program.

I started a thread asking if MU has ever considered starting a football program again...      I do not see why they would not look into it again.
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LON

Quote from: CrimsonNCrean on March 29, 2010, 09:08:46 AM
I started a thread asking if MU has ever considered starting a football program again...      I do not see why they would not look into it again.

College football sucks.  So, the answer is no.

CrimsonNCrean

"I better walk before they make me run"

Brewtown Andy

Quote from: CrimsonNCrean on March 29, 2010, 09:08:46 AM
I started a thread asking if MU has ever considered starting a football program again...      I do not see why they would not look into it again.

I'd rather the university focus on winning in sports where the NCAA hands out championships.
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TheButlerDidIt

I could see the Big East scrambling to add enough football schools to increase the football membership to 12 (East Carolina, Marshall, Central Florida, move Nova up to DI status) so they can try to keep up with the Joneses. That would be an awfully big conference...

Ari Gold

Quote from: TheButlerDidIt on March 29, 2010, 09:41:10 AM
I could see the Big East scrambling to add enough football schools to increase the football membership to 12 (East Carolina, Marshall, Central Florida, move Nova up to DI status) so they can try to keep up with the Joneses. That would be an awfully big conference...

Memphis too? Figured they'd be the team to jump to the BE, if the BE is where the Big 10+2 got their 12th team.

GGGG

Quote from: Ari Gold on March 29, 2010, 09:51:36 AM
Memphis too? Figured they'd be the team to jump to the BE, if the BE is where the Big 10+2 got their 12th team.


Memphis football program is in a shambles.

I really doubt that the BE would go to 12 and water down their football even more through the process.  If the BE loses one team to the B10, they'd probably just add Central Florida and be done.  However, if they lose say Pitt and Rutgers, it really is hard to say how it will turn out.

The BE will work like hell to keep their BCS slot...and the other conferences will probably only go along with that under threat of lawsuit.

TheButlerDidIt

Money will talk, basketball will take a walk.

If the Big East has to take on mediocre football programs in order to maintain their football status, they will. I wish it wasn't true, but...

Say Rutgers and Pitt are poached. That leaves the Big East with six football schools left. If Nova is bumped up, that's seven. Five football schools would probably be plucked from CUSA. That's IF two football schools are taken from the Big East. As long as football provides the money, a watered down basketball product is put on the back burner.

If this scenario were to happen (obviously, this is complete speculation), the Big East would have 19 members. Paring down would be inevitible.

Hopefully, nothing happens and the status quo remains, because I hate this topic.

goodgreatgrand

The C-USA expansion has been widely reported to be patchwork. So, by adding E. Carolina (the Skip Holtz boat sailed), Memphis (a school that didnt get accepted the first time around), Central Florida (a school widely believed to have too poor of academics) or Marshall (WTF??) makes the conference worse in the long term. Sure, more pathwork might keep it together for a few more years but if Im Pitt, WVU, Rutgers and Syracuse, I'm going to do everything I possibly can to escape. Academic standards gone. Football is gone. Basketball is so convoluted and identity-less that the conference is laughable. No money and no reason to stick around.

mu-rara

Quote from: CrimsonNCrean on March 29, 2010, 09:08:46 AM
I started a thread asking if MU has ever considered starting a football program again...      I do not see why they would not look into it again.

It would be a drain on already scarce resources. 

It took every bit of strenth I had to refrain from political commentary.

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