(03-19-2012 01:40 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  New Mexico and UNLV are kind of like western versions of Memphis and Temple - they have pretty good value as all-sports members but very limited value as football-only members. The issue is that geography can be thrown out the window for football-only members, but that can't be done for all-sports members.

It's obvious that Air Force and BYU are the best football-only western options for the Big East (and I think the former is much more likely than the latter). The real question is that if both rebuff the Big East's advances, who else is worthy? I still say that no one should sleep on Hawaii. Remember that we're just talking about them as a football-only member and the NCAA provides a compensatory extra regular season game in the years that you travel there.

As a longtime member of the Hawaii football on television cult (it's the Late Late Show of college football--if it's Saturday and you're still jonesing for some football at one in the morning, the Warriors are there to take you into the wee hours) I am allllll in favor of the absurdity that would be Hawaii in the Big East. FIVE TIME ZONES!

And Frank's right--after AFA and BYU, they're next. Fresno hasn't been to a BCS game.