Big East Conference Membership Announcement
The Big East will hold a live teleconference at 5:00 PM Eastern to announce that Houston, Southern Methodist, Central Florida, San Diego State, and Boise State will join the Big East Conference for 2013.
Click the above link to be transported to hear Commissioner John Marinatto to announce it live.
6 months ago
Holly C. Tanneyhill
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This is a very high risk, but possible high reward move for the Big East.
The good news is that the league is a NATIONAL conference and if it’s successful, all Big East schools will find it easier to recruit anywhere in the country assuming it keeps the automatic BCS bid and I feel pretty confident that it can.
The bad news is that rivalries are very fragmented in the western division and it can still be easy picking by the other conference. The other piece of bad news is that the Catholic contingent still remains with Georgetown, Villanova, St. John’s Providence, Seton Hall, Marquette, DePaul, and Notre Dame, with none of these schools playing in the football league, some because the teams are really dinky like Georgetown and Nova, but we know how Notre Dame is. Also, you have to consider the fact that Boise State and San Diego State are in as football only members. They will clearly go for the Big 12 or Pac 12 conference at the first opportunity.
for basketball, I don't really see the quality improving much with SMU, UCF, or Houston
but then again, with more national TV, there’s just that much more of a chance that these teams can make a big run.
That, and the AQ for BCS conferences may very well disappear by 2014.
And that’s really the only reason any of these teams joined.
by David Hooper on Dec 12, 2011 6:59 PM EST up reply actions
There is so much wrong, I'm not sure where to begin...
But how about all of those non-revenue producing sports that now have cross country voyages2-3 times per month depending on the sport.
UConn BBall charters, volleyball doesn’t. Softball doesn’t. Baseball, etc.
That was the most interesting part of the phone call because this was not addressed AT ALL.
Travel was brought up once and dismissed to trivial.
Our goal is still to graduate these kids correct?
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by Holly C. Tanneyhill on Dec 7, 2011 10:11 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Graduate?
If you think athletics is dependent on this kind of money, you ought to see what the academics side looks like. Sports breeds loyalty. Loyalty breeds alumni donors. Alumni donors keep feeding the machine. It’s not the only source of revenue, or necessarily the biggest, but they are dependent on it nonetheless.
by David Hooper on Dec 12, 2011 7:01 PM EST up reply actions















