NYT: Big East to Absorb B12 Remnants?

[Marqus Howard]

Chip Brown just tweeted that the SEC is targeting West Virginia as their 14th member. I haven't heard their name come up too much with realignment talks, but would one of the best Big East football schools leaving be bad for the Big East, but potentially good for Marquette's prospects of remaining in the conference long term?

[bilsu]

Chip Brown just tweeted that the SEC is targeting West Virginia as their 14th member. I haven't heard their name come up too much with realignment talks, but would one of the best Big East football schools leaving be bad for the Big East, but potentially good for Marquette's prospects of remaining in the conference long term?

I think it would mean we get Missouri as long as the Big 10 keeps rejecting them.

[brewcity77]

Chip Brown just tweeted that the SEC is targeting West Virginia as their 14th member. I haven't heard their name come up too much with realignment talks, but would one of the best Big East football schools leaving be bad for the Big East, but potentially good for Marquette's prospects of remaining in the conference long term?

Bad for the Big East, and anything bad for the Big East has the potential to be bad for Marquette. I think we're sort of in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If teams start leaving the Big East, say West Virginia goes to the SEC, then the door is open for possibly a Syracuse and/or Louisville to bolt for the ACC, then the walls come tumbling down as the whole conference falls apart. But if they all stay, and we add Missouri and Kansas, then the football schools start thinking about how life would be without the basketball-onlies.

I think the best thing to do for us right now is to get a new AD in place so we have someone to steer the ship through this crapstorm, and attach ourselves at the hip to teams like Providence, Villanova, St. John's, and Georgetown so that if/when it all goes balls up, we have a viable backup plan and allies to help us get there.

[GGGG]

Chip Brown just tweeted that the SEC is targeting West Virginia as their 14th member. I haven't heard their name come up too much with realignment talks, but would one of the best Big East football schools leaving be bad for the Big East, but potentially good for Marquette's prospects of remaining in the conference long term?

Actually a blogger with some ties named "Frank the Tank" predicted WVU about a week ago.  The reason being that there is an agreement with current SEC schools not to take ACC schools from the same state (eliminates Georgia Tech, Florida State and Clemson), that Virginia Tech and the North Carolina schools would have "political issues" to deal with, and that Mizzou is more interested in B10 than anything.

That leaves West Virginia.

[Aughnanure]

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