(05-07-2012 10:00 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  For Marinatto to be fired things have to be going poorly!

1) Notre Dame, Louisville, UConn, Cincinnati and Rugers are looking.
2) Big East may not be doing well in revenue sharing for football.
3) Air Force and BYU have no interest in the New Big East.
4) Boise, San Diego and Navy maybe ready to pull a TCU!
5) Georgetown, Villanova, Steton Hall, St. Johns, Providence, DePaul and Marquette maybe looking to split.
6) Marinatto has completely blotched the TV contract renewal.

I firmly believe a lot of glue is needed to fix this. I do believe that these teams will stay togather:

Temple
East Carolina will be added
Central Florida
South Florida
Memphis
SMU
Houston

No the reason was as noted below.

Quote:With the Big East’s next television contract set to be negotiated in September, all signs point toward a gridiron-oriented successor with some degree of TV background—a stark departure for a conference whose power brokers have been basketball guys with Providence ties.

The Presidents just didn't feel that Marinatto was the man to get the tv negotiating job done. Do you think he was? He neither had a gridiron or tv backround.

Big East football will implode in two or three years...tops.

(05-08-2012 02:34 AM)crixus Wrote:  Big East football will implode in two or three years...tops.

The BE is like Rasputin, it just won't die no matter how many times you think it is dead. They'll lose more teams, and then add more teams to replace them. I'm done believing conspiracy theories that the league will ever die.

At the conclusion of the final chapter, even Rasputin eventually comes to an end...

Simple. You bring in Britton Banowsky as the Commish, & the top C-USA programs.
However, getting along with the Conference Presidents are another thing.

(05-08-2012 07:31 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(05-08-2012 02:34 AM)crixus Wrote:  Big East football will implode in two or three years...tops.

The BE is like Rasputin, it just won't die no matter how many times you think it is dead. They'll lose more teams, and then add more teams to replace them. I'm done believing conspiracy theories that the league will ever die.

And one of the teams that will eventually be added is ECU.

(05-08-2012 02:34 AM)crixus Wrote:  Big East football will implode in two or three years...tops.

That is what they said the last time and it is still here.

SO.....the Big East IS the life-boats????

(05-07-2012 10:08 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(05-07-2012 10:00 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  For Marinatto to be fired things have to be going poorly!

1) Notre Dame, Louisville, UConn, Cincinnati and Rugers are looking.
2) Big East may not be doing well in revenue sharing for football.
3) Air Force and BYU have no interest in the New Big East.
4) Boise, San Diego and Navy maybe ready to pull a TCU!
5) Georgetown, Villanova, Steton Hall, St. Johns, Providence, DePaul and Marquette maybe looking to split.
6) Marinatto has completely blotched the TV contract renewal.

I firmly believe a lot of glue is needed to fix this. I do believe that these teams will stay togather:

Temple
East Carolina will be added
Central Florida
South Florida
Memphis
SMU
Houston

Kind of an overreaction, I think.

Heck, everyone made fun of the guy, constantly. Now, he is gone and it is a sign of the Apocalypse?

+1

Don't try using common sense on these boards.