First off,

to any new poster with multiple paragraphs.

And secondly, from the bits I read, how is this NOT pimping?

(02-16-2012 01:23 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Third, I continue to hear from former colleagues that Temple is not interested and remains confident they will get an invite to the Big East. If you can't get Temple does it then make sense to expand by more teams - especially for those of you who want to stop at 18 - or does Temple's decision have no bearing on what you guys want to see happen?

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former employee of the Middle Tennessee athletic dept.

Back to the original question, but first I'm surprised that so many of you thought Temple wasn't going to get back into the Big East.

Anyway, without Temple do your instincts tell you the Alliance will add fewer teams on the range or add on the higher end?

(02-22-2012 02:26 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(02-16-2012 01:23 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Third, I continue to hear from former colleagues that Temple is not interested and remains confident they will get an invite to the Big East. If you can't get Temple does it then make sense to expand by more teams - especially for those of you who want to stop at 18 - or does Temple's decision have no bearing on what you guys want to see happen?

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former employee of the Middle Tennessee athletic dept.

Back to the original question, but first I'm surprised that so many of you thought Temple wasn't going to get back into the Big East.

Anyway, without Temple do your instincts tell you the Alliance will add fewer teams on the range or add on the higher end?

Regardless of what happens to LT in all of this, I find it interesting that many are looking at market size even though those big markets don't care about the potential new team (i.e. UNT). I am very fond of USM, and they have great fans, I'm glad that they are not trying to be a member of CUSA now, otherwise they wouldn't make it due to "market size".

(02-22-2012 05:02 PM)Friscodog Wrote:  

(02-22-2012 02:26 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(02-16-2012 01:23 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Third, I continue to hear from former colleagues that Temple is not interested and remains confident they will get an invite to the Big East. If you can't get Temple does it then make sense to expand by more teams - especially for those of you who want to stop at 18 - or does Temple's decision have no bearing on what you guys want to see happen?

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former employee of the Middle Tennessee athletic dept.

Back to the original question, but first I'm surprised that so many of you thought Temple wasn't going to get back into the Big East.

Anyway, without Temple do your instincts tell you the Alliance will add fewer teams on the range or add on the higher end?

Regardless of what happens to LT in all of this, I find it interesting that many are looking at market size even though those big markets don't care about the potential new team (i.e. UNT). I am very fond of USM, and they have great fans, I'm glad that they are not trying to be a member of CUSA now, otherwise they wouldn't make it due to "market size".

Yeah. I feel ya. It's f'd up.