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.

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?