(11-01-2010 08:34 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Thanks for the link. It looks like the 12/20 is really being considered. So we would be adding:

TCU
Houston
Central Florida
Villanove or Temple

Memphis and East Carolina or not mentioned! What's you take?

ECU doesn't have tv market and thus can't deliver revenues to the league and there may be academic concerns as well
Memphis is awful in football and their facilities and academics don't help them. Their market is much smaller than the other candidates.

TCU, Houston, UCF and VU or Temple bring the 4th, 5th, 10th and 19th DMA into into the leagues football contracts and potential network. That's a lot of potential for increased revenues. Houston having been part of a major football/basketball conference, being in a huge market and having lots of financial and state backing probably helps outweigh academic issues they might have. Also it makes sense if you bring TCU to also add another nearby program and Houston has been the best.

It will be interesting to see how many teams will actually be brought in and how the league will handle them --all sports or football only or?