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(11-03-2011 03:01 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 02:30 PM)stever20 Wrote:  It's so funny.... Everyone keeps talking on the MWC raiding the WAC. But with the MWC being down to only 5 existing teams plus the 3 from the WAC- what is stopping the WAC from trying to apply pressure to the 3 from the WAC to "come back". If the 3 came back, they have 10 for football and 12 for other sports. Maybe pick up San Diego St and UNLV and you have 12/14. Leaves Colorado St, New Mexico, and Wyoming out there.

I'm guessing one of the reasons Thompson sold the MWC on the alliance was to forestall this possibility

Hair said that one reason was so that MWC and CUSA wouldn't try to poach each other's schools. That makes sense. If it was a free-for-all you could easily see CUSA trying to replace departing teams by inviting UNM and others.

So the new Big East would look like this:

2012 (8 team conference)

Uconn
UL
UC
Rutgers
USF
UCF
Hou
SMU

2013 (12 Team Conference with a Championship Game)

Uconn
UL
UC
Rutgers
USF
UCF
Hou
SMU
Boise St
Air Force
Navy
Temple/Memphis/BYU ???

Motion passed by the Board of Education 7-1

Motion passes.

Pop the bubbly and now do the right thing and let Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia go, its the right thing to do

(11-03-2011 03:38 PM)Eagleweiser Wrote:  Pop the bubbly and now do the right thing and let Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia go, its the right thing to do

None of the new teams can join until 2013 the earliest, so how is it the thing to let those schools leave the BE early? That is blinded and makes no sense.

(11-03-2011 03:41 PM)Brahman Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:38 PM)Eagleweiser Wrote:  Pop the bubbly and now do the right thing and let Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia go, its the right thing to do

None of the new teams can join until 2013 the earliest, so how is it the thing to let those schools leave the BE early? That is blinded and makes no sense.

I thought UCF, Hou and SMU can get out for the 2012 season.

still a lot of moving parts.

sounds like they are prepared to accept if other western universities do as well.

(11-03-2011 03:45 PM)phil77 Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:41 PM)Brahman Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:38 PM)Eagleweiser Wrote:  Pop the bubbly and now do the right thing and let Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia go, its the right thing to do

None of the new teams can join until 2013 the earliest, so how is it the thing to let those schools leave the BE early? That is blinded and makes no sense.

I thought UCF, Hou and SMU can get out for the 2012 season.

Already negotiated and will happen.

(11-03-2011 04:06 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:45 PM)phil77 Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:41 PM)Brahman Wrote:  

(11-03-2011 03:38 PM)Eagleweiser Wrote:  Pop the bubbly and now do the right thing and let Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia go, its the right thing to do

None of the new teams can join until 2013 the earliest, so how is it the thing to let those schools leave the BE early? That is blinded and makes no sense.

I thought UCF, Hou and SMU can get out for the 2012 season.

Already negotiated and will happen.

Thats what I'm hearing as well.