(05-12-2017 08:31 PM)gosports1 Wrote: what are you talking about? The FB schools without Syracuse, pitt, rutgers, Louisville and non fb ND approached BC to come back to a conference without the c7? I don't think so. if you have a link please provide I would like to read about it
No, not the AAC from anything I've read.
There were a couple of items that popped up in late 2013 or 2014, iirc, about Big East doings before the peel-offs. BC was in a list that included Penn State, Army, and Navy approached around the time TCU was (I think before them, actually).
We might have forgotten, but while even Pittsburgh and Syracuse would announce their departures not long after TCU took the offer, that whole Big XII collapse thing happened after those announced splits, with the PAC-16 and Big Ten grab all up in the air, and "Meatball" publicly told all of the Big XII schools they had a home in the Big East. West Virginia's AD would additionally add that a bunch of the B12 schools were ready to do that; I think Kansas State's AD saying they were all waiting for the cue from the others to collectively call the Big East offices.
Seems so long ago, such chaos.
The C7 thing isn't as old, but, apparently, BC got a buzz again during the early stages of the split. I've read it as due diligence; that BC was asked just in case they would say yes; the C7 wanted to resume their relationship. I think certain ADs who spoke on the matter further added about candidates needing all the approval, and BC checking all of the boxes from everyone, and stuff like that. More than anything, it was just that the new conference still wasn't over BC leaving, like it could have gotten them back...rather odd.