(11-01-2010 07:44 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(11-01-2010 06:52 PM)wvucrazed Wrote:  wow I go away from my computer and I miss all this.

seems to me clear that the non-FB schools are pressuring Villanova heavily to upgrade their program, so that potentially (from their point of view) the BE can stay at 16. But I can't imagine why WVU, UL, etc. would agree to Villanova as a compromise with TCU sitting there interested. They leverage is on the FB side, and even with Villanova I don't think the BB side would be able to prevent a split if they balk at TCU. I would agree that 20 seems unrealistic, but maybe 18? Nova, TCU, Houston. Of course would create 11 for football, so... who knows. I doubt anybody has any clue what will happen at this point and that includes the BE presidents and ADs.

Adding TCU, Houston, ECU and UCF gets us to 12 teams. This covers our @zz when Rutgers, and Pitt or Cuse goes to the Big 10 next year. We will still have 10 teams and we can wait for Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa State, Baylor next year after the B12 implodes.