REPORT: BEast to add UCF, SMU, Houston in all sports; Boise St/Navy/AFA in fball

[Aughnanure]

UPDATE II: Report: Big East extends six invites

The Big East Conference will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

UPDATE: Appears UCF, Houston and SMU are on the way for all sports.

@PeteThamelNYT: Big East announcement appears to mean that at least UCF, Houston and SMU are on the way. Those were the locks.

https://twitter.com/#!/PeteThamelNYT/status/131419623986966530
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NY Post: Big East looking for seventh school to invite

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/college/football/big_east_looks_for_lucky_th_E77JosPK0O40CcgEVfYeLK#ixzz1cSlWSEl1

SI: Big East Could Add Up to Six Teams Tuesday

http://tracking.si.com/2011/11/01/big-east-could-add-up-to-six-teams-tuesday/?sct=hp_t2_a5&eref=sihp

@PeteThamelNYT: Big East announcement appears to mean that at least UCF, Houston and SMU are on the way. Those were the locks.

[TallTitan34]

Dumb.

[chapman]

Kind of pathetic when the conference has to do the looking.  The basketball schools are letting Marinatto and the football schools walk all over them despite having the majority and a better backup plan.

[MerrittsMustache]

Kind of pathetic when the conference has to do the looking.  The basketball schools are letting Marinatto and the football schools walk all over them despite having the majority and a better backup plan.

Football has the money though.

[Aughnanure]

I honestly wouldn't mind adding Houston, Memphis, Temple, UCF and SMU to get to 10 football schools. But the service academies and Boise? I just dont see the value.

There could be a nice little Cincinnati-Louisville-Memphis-Houston rivalry that emerges.

[TallTitan34]

Right now the basketball schools have the majority and they are going to give it away.  In a few years when the power conferences need to add a team, where do you think they are going to come looking?  Then we will be in the same mess again.

The basketball schools need to break away.

Do all of these schools that are joining get to split the exit fee money as well?

[Warrior1969]

If the BB schools some how ef this up so bad that they are now the minority, then we get what ever we have coming to us in the future, wow.

[MUBurrow]

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[Aughnanure]

Looks like UCF, Houston, SMU are "on the way

http://j.mp/rtCBjC

This evens the basketball schools and football schools at 8.

[Norm]

Looks like UCF, Houston, SMU are "on the way

http://j.mp/rtCBjC

This evens the basketball schools and football schools at 8.

How is this "new" conference any better than what MU had in Conference USA?

[MarquetteDano]

Right now the basketball schools have the majority and they are going to give it away.  In a few years when the power conferences need to add a team, where do you think they are going to come looking?  Then we will be in the same mess again.

The basketball schools need to break away.

Do all of these schools that are joining get to split the exit fee money as well?

This.  This is going to go and on and on until we are Conference USA.  Or, create a solid conference that does not include football (at least FBS football).

From a basketball standpoint, the Big East has lost one national powerhouse, one perennial Top 25 teams, and one consistent tourney team and replaced it with one team with makes the tourney once every five years, and two teams who nearly never make the tourney.

[GGGG]

UPDATE: Appears UCF, Houston and SMU are on the way for all sports.

OK, this just gets them up to 8 football and 8 basketball right?

I really don't have a problem with this, with the addition of four, football only members.  I just don't think basketball can go bigger than 16.

[Silkk the Shaka]

How is this "new" conference any better than what MU had in Conference USA?

UConn, Villanova, Georgetown, ND, Louisville, St. John's, Cincinnati
MSG for the Big East tourney
Nearly all games nationally televised
Continued BCS affiliation

***compare that to CUSA, with
Louisville, Memphis, Cincinnati
Conference tournament held in El Paso this past year
Only select marquee matchups televised nationally
No BCS affiliation


It's not even close to what we had in CUSA.  It's not what the Big East was the past three years, but it's still leaps and bounds better than what we had in CUSA and if you can't see that then I don't know what to tell you.

[NersEllenson]

Why would they not admit Memphis, Temple and one of UCF, Houston, SMU?  If I'm a basketball school, and in the majority - this is what I dictate happen.  At least this way once Lville and UCONN/Cincy leave - you already have Memphis and Temple in the league to absorb those basketball losses...

[MU_Beav]

Basketball is what gave the Big East its name - to have semblance of its brand intact, I can't imagine the conference not letting Memphis and Temple in.  Two respectable markets, great recruiting areas, and robust upgrade after losing SU, Pitt and WVU.  No inside information, but they'll be in...

[bilsu]

Basketball is what gave the Big East its name - to have semblance of its brand intact, I can't imagine the conference not letting Memphis and Temple in.  Two respectable markets, great recruiting areas, and robust upgrade after losing SU, Pitt and WVU.  No inside information, but they'll be in...

As fans we want to see the best competition. Maybe the basketball coaches do not. Buzz wins more games, if weaker schools are added. Buzz losses more games, if Memphis and Temple are added. The weaker conference will not get 11 teams in NCAA, probably 6 a year. In most years MU will be in the top 4.

[Mobot]

I was surprised to see that Houston has two top 100 recruits coming in for basketball in 2012... #26 Danuel House and #63 Danrad Knowles.  James Dickey is on his way to turning things around.  

[nyg]

Lose Pitt, Cuse and WVA

Gain Houston, SMU and UCF

Not even close for b-ball.  Houston might be OK, but SMU and UCF........  Huge loss for BE hoops.

[kmwtrucks]

Add Temple for Football and Memphis for BBALL only. starts to look better.  Also remeber that Prov, Rutgers, and ST John are making moves up the ladder. 

[Earl Tatum]

Just and idea-----Houston, Memphis, Temple and add Xavier, possibly VCU, Ala. Birmingham and Butler. The Question is would VCU and Butler maintan. Ala. B. usually has a good team as does Old Dominion.

[JTBMU7]

We have to take what we can get at this point. Bottom line is we are better off, for now, being a member in a BCS conference than we are trying to break away and start something new. This ensure football money, tv contracts, BEAST name recognition, etc, for at least a few more years. Gotta stay w the best conference we can be in at this point it is the BEAST.

BTW... UCF, Houston and SMU are huge football upgrades over cuse and pitt from a competitive standpoint. Even WVU has gone downhill since Dick Rod left...

[Aughnanure]

Now on ESPN

Big East extends six invites

The Big East Conference will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

[Aughnanure]

Andy Katz says:

"Big East should have gone Memphis-Temple in addition or in place of Houston and SMU at least you get hoops and market, not fb&no market"

http://j.mp/u5LPom

[nyg]

Andy Katz says:

"Big East should have gone Memphis-Temple in addition or in place of Houston and SMU at least you get hoops and market, not fb&no market"

http://j.mp/u5LPom

Yes, Memphis and Temple for SMU and UCF.   Houston is alright. 

[Skatastrophy]

bleh