agree bit
we need bowls that match Big East teams to BigTen,Big12 or SEC

(01-19-2009 12:33 PM)panite Wrote:  

(01-18-2009 02:39 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  A 3rd Big 10 team would do better than a 2nd ACC team. Big 10 loves Orlando, they would come down every year if they could. If everything works out. The St. Pete bowl will be BE vs B10/12. The Liberty Bowl will be BE vs SEC. The Bowl for the Cure will be BE vs Big 10/12

A bowl on a CUSA Campus is going to have a CUSA team in it. The only way the BE gets this bowl in its line up is if the alliance is a CUSA / BE bowl or if the BE invites UCF into the conference. UCF now has a weapon to offset the Liberty Bowl for BE inclusion if the bowl pays enough. The UCF bowl location in a warm weather evironment, with a UCF rivalry with USF, with a better TV market than Memphis, just upped the conference bidding in the BE expansion war. Solid Florida connections for FB benefit the BE conference matching the benefits that Memphis would bring to the conference with their BB and Liberty Bowl connections, and the Florida addition would be in the BE footprint. Expansion rumors just get better. Who wins if the BE stays intact and only adds one all sports school.

I was thinking a CUSA vs Big 10/12. Creating a little more pressure for the BE to come calling. Memphis would have BE vs. SEC. Maybe the St.Pete bowl could become a BE vs Big 10/12 and move to RayJay.

(01-19-2009 01:41 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(01-19-2009 12:33 PM)panite Wrote:  

(01-18-2009 02:39 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  A 3rd Big 10 team would do better than a 2nd ACC team. Big 10 loves Orlando, they would come down every year if they could. If everything works out. The St. Pete bowl will be BE vs B10/12. The Liberty Bowl will be BE vs SEC. The Bowl for the Cure will be BE vs Big 10/12

A bowl on a CUSA Campus is going to have a CUSA team in it. The only way the BE gets this bowl in its line up is if the alliance is a CUSA / BE bowl or if the BE invites UCF into the conference. UCF now has a weapon to offset the Liberty Bowl for BE inclusion if the bowl pays enough. The UCF bowl location in a warm weather environment, with a UCF rivalry with USF, with a better TV market than Memphis, just upped the conference bidding in the BE expansion war. Solid Florida connections for FB benefit the BE conference matching the benefits that Memphis would bring to the conference with their BB and Liberty Bowl connections, and the Florida addition would be in the BE footprint. Expansion rumors just get better. Who wins if the BE stays intact and only adds one all sports school.

I was thinking a CUSA vs Big 10/12. Creating a little more pressure for the BE to come calling. Memphis would have BE vs. SEC. Maybe the St.Pete bowl could become a BE vs Big 10/12 and move to RayJay.

Might be a good move for the B-12 since they are looking for more Florida Bowls. Maybe the B-10 will hook up with the BE in the St. Pete Bowl then for a change of pace for the league bowl destinations since they already have a couple of bowls in the Orlando area. BE and a SEC team in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis would also be a great addition, but it appears that getting that bowl will require admitting Memphis to the BE as that bowl committee has the University of Memphis interest's in mind. That is good for the local university and the conference that it belongs to. At this time I believe that, that bowl is happy with the SEC / CUSA line up it currently has, as it is in a good location to draw fans from both leagues.

UCF could bait the BE for admittance too if this new on campus bowl is successful. Another warm weather bowl in Florida that has a decent payout of at least 750k to 1 miilion dollars, along with a great location to take the family for a winter vacation, would be a great addition to the BE line up over a 300k Pizza Bowl in Alabama. I guess we'll have to wait and see if this bowl makes the line up and how successful it will be. If the BE can't wrestle the high paying NYD bowls away from the larger established conferences on the next contract go around, then the least the new commish can do is improve on some decent warm weather locations, and improve on bowl payouts starting with walking away from low ball paying 300k Pizza Bowls if that is possible at this time.

(01-19-2009 12:33 PM)panite Wrote:  A bowl on a CUSA Campus is going to have a CUSA team in it. The only way the BE gets this bowl in its line up is if the alliance is a CUSA / BE bowl or if the BE invites UCF into the conference. UCF now has a weapon to offset the Liberty Bowl for BE inclusion if the bowl pays enough. The UCF bowl location in a warm weather evironment, with a UCF rivalry with USF, with a better TV market than Memphis, just upped the conference bidding in the BE expansion war. Solid Florida connections for FB benefit the BE conference matching the benefits that Memphis would bring to the conference with their BB and Liberty Bowl connections, and the Florida addition would be in the BE footprint. Expansion rumors just get better. Who wins if the BE stays intact and only adds one all sports school.

Getting warmer.....

Word on the street is the UCF bowl will payout between $1-2 million.

(01-16-2009 04:14 PM)3601 Wrote:  

(01-16-2009 03:34 PM)Gray Avenger Wrote:  Inviting Memphis would mean picking up sponsorships of FedEx and AutoZone among other possibilities.

Maybe. Some reliable posters who are typically in the know swear that something is going on behinds the scenes. I'd love to see some real action replace rumor and hearsay.

FedEx seems like a much more suitable sponsor for a BCS conference than a company like Aeropostale or Pathmark.

What are they, the rumors?