Tigeer Wrote:I don't think BCS status for the BE is even a question any longer. Maybe by media hacks, but no one that matters. The media hacks have their own agenda - push ratings and affiliations.
USF and WVU just need to keep winning and both will be in a BCS Bowl - period. Can't control the National Championship matchup - its mythical anyhoo.
Exactly right - the days of "will the BE maintain its BCS bid?" are long gone. The entire league would have to go into the tank for a sustained period for that ever to be an issue again, and we've shown that's not going to happen.
If both USF and WVU are fortunate enough to "win out" - and i'm not predicting that - then I would expect both to be in a BCS bowl. National championship? We'll see... it depends on how the dominoes fall in front of us.
USF has its hands full this weekend against a revved up UCF team who would love nothing more than defeat the Bulls and deflect some of the publicity USF is getting. WVU has very tough road games against Rutgers and Cinci, as well as UL and UCONN.
Cinci is obviously in the picture as well - they could win them all and be the BE champ. They're that good.
We need to continue to improve internally as we have done, and let things outside the conference develop. Who knows, in 5 to 7 years there may be a very attractive option that we don't see right now. Maybe ECU will be a Top 20 team with an expanded stadium. Maybe Temple will be winning MAC titles and putting 40k in the Linc (not likely, but anything can happen in football...) Maybe UMASS will decide the time has come to play at the Big Boys table.
All we can do as a conference is work to get better from within, and when the time comes look around and see who will bring in the most value.