http://www.sbnation.com/college-football...ealignment

It never ends. It's like a dog chasing it's tail.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
Big 12 wants waiver to host B12 champ game. Bowlsby on expansion: "We're unconvinced at this point larger is better" http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...title-game …

Brian Hamilton ‏@ChiTribHamilton
BREAKING: #NotreDame HC MIke Brey: "We do know we'll be in the Big East next season. That decision was made last Friday."

Brian Hamilton ‏@ChiTribHamilton
#NotreDame HC Mike Brey on Big East next year: "I feel strongly that the Catholic schools are going to be there with us."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/col...7781.story

For what it's worth:

MHver3 ‏@MHver3
Getting reports from a source at Ohio State and a source at Penn St that BiG will meet in April to vote on 2-6 members.


MHver3 ‏@MHver3
UVA is a lock

Can we just stop adding stuff from that shill's twitter page to a thread titled "Realignment NEWS.". I mean, he's been right less times than a NASCAR

God no not a realignment post

OH well.

Apparently Some Maryland terp jacka$s is claiming that UNC now has a B1G offer and UVA might as well.


Maryland Terp site dipwad thinks UNC and maybe UVA now have B1G offers

Take it for what it is worth, which is NOTHING.

And keep it, no really, I don't want it back.

You are welcome.

Obviously the above was posted elsewhere previously.


Oh shut up.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
Catholic 7 schools will keep Big East name, expect to begin new league this fall, sources tell @ESPN

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
Departure of Catholic 7 schools this fall could mean Notre Dame joins ACC in 2013 instead of 2014, sources tell @espn

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
Even though Big East will change name, league football champ still gets automatic BCS bowl berth this year

Catholic 7 will keep Big East name, MSG tournament site
Mark Blaudschun, Special for USA TODAY Sports8:13a.m. EST March 5, 2013

After a weekend of talks and negotiations, the Big East Conference has put together a framework of an agreement allowing member schools known as the Catholic 7 to break away from the Big East by July and take the "Big East'' name, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter was not to be discussed publicly.

The person said an agreement on the split could be announced Thursday and added that the Big East football schools expect to have a new conference name as well as a new site for the conference basketball tournament, which has been anchored in New York's Madison Square Garden since 1983.

According to the person, the main negotiations have involved how to split a Big East cash reserve which is in excess of $100 million and comes from exit fees paid by Big East schools that have left or are leaving the conference, as well as the lucrative basketball shares earned in the NCAA tournament by conference schools and a pair of conference reserve funds.

The three Big East football schools that are part of the full revenue sharing plan -- Cincinnati, South Florida and Connecticut -- will be the primary beneficiaries, with each school expected to be paid between $15 million to $20 million each.

The Catholic 7 schools -- DePaul, Seton Hall, St. John's, Providence, Villanova, Marquette and Georgetown -- are still negotiating their share, which could be as much as $5 million per school, but is likely to be somewhere between $3 million and $5 million per school. They also are expected to announce a TV deal today in New York with the new Fox cable channel.

The other Big East football schools -- Temple, SMU, Central Florida, Memphis and Houston as well as Tulane and East Carolina, who will join the conference in 2014 -- are also expected to split another $10 million.

Notre Dame, which is taking its teams (other than football, which remains an independent) to the ACC, is expected to join that league in the fall.

Aside from the financial considerations involving both conferences, a prime topic of debate has been determining a site for the postseason basketball tournament. It will not be Madison Square Garden, which, once the breakup is official, is expected to make an arrangement with the Catholic 7 league to play next year's tournament in New York.

That leaves the Big East looking for a place to play, with Hartford the likely first stop in what will be rotating series of sites for a conference which will have UConn, Temple, Cincinnati and Memphis as its basketball anchors.

Hartford would be a logical and prudent choice for a variety of reasons. In the infancy of the Big East before the Garden was chosen as a permanent anchor, the Big East moved its postseason tournament from Providence to Syracuse to Hartford.

Mark Blaudschun also writes for AJerseyGuy.com.

@McMurphyESPN: Michigan State AD Mark Hollis tells Detroit News B1G "not in a position right now where we're looking to expand. It's off the radar right now"

(03-06-2013 06:31 PM)mbl95 Wrote:  @McMurphyESPN: Michigan State AD Mark Hollis tells Detroit News B1G "not in a position right now where we're looking to expand. It's off the radar right now"

That probably means it is right around the corner.

Sounds like we might get an announcement, hopefully including details, later today...

Quote:Big East, Catholic 7 reach agreement
By Brett McMurphy | ESPN
Updated: March 7, 2013, 1:32 AM ET

The Big East Conference is expected to announce Thursday that it has reached an agreement with the Catholic 7 basketball schools, allowing for their departure this summer, sources said.

The agreement between the Big East and the Catholic 7 -- DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's and Villanova -- will allow those schools to keep the Big East name and the right to play their basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden, sources said.

The seven schools will depart on June 30 and will begin their new league on July 1, sources said. They are expected to add Butler and Xavier and likely Creighton to have at least a 10-team basketball league for the 2013-14 season, according to sources.

Dayton and St. Louis are the leading candidates to increase the league's membership to 12 teams for the 2014-15 season, sources said.

The remaining schools in the Big East will have 10 members in 2014: Connecticut, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane and UCF. Navy is scheduled to join in 2015, and Tulsa is the leading candidate to become the league's 12th member in either 2014 or '15, sources said.

The current Big East will have to come up with a new conference name by July 1. The league's offices will remain in Providence, R.I., for at least a couple of years, sources said, even though Providence College is leaving.

That's stupid. How hard can it be to move the league offices out of Providence?? Find a new location, build a new location, get a truck, move out?????

(03-07-2013 06:07 AM)Vewb1 Wrote:  That's stupid. How hard can it be to move the league offices out of Providence?? Find a new location, build a new location, get a truck, move out?????

Probably not a good idea. By the time all that happens half the conference could turn over again !!

Guessing they have a long term commercial lease and its just not a big enough deal to have to keep paying on it in order to move.

Notre Dame Exits

Quote:Notre Dame and the Big East have reached an agreement allowing the Fighting Irish to leave the league two years early and join the ACC on July 1, sources told ESPN.

Notre Dame will pay about $2.5 million to exit the league, sources told ESPN.

(03-12-2013 08:19 AM)Kco17 Wrote:  Notre Dame Exits

Quote:Notre Dame and the Big East have reached an agreement allowing the Fighting Irish to leave the league two years early and join the ACC on July 1, sources told ESPN.

Notre Dame will pay about $2.5 million to exit the league, sources told ESPN.

That seems like a mere pittance for a withdrawal, much less a "2 year" early withdrawal. smh

Awful uni's ND