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The Boston Globe
Road map to better Big East
By Mark Blaudschun-National Football Writer
Globe Staff / October 29, 2010

Big East bashing is in fashion this fall, and if you look at the numbers, it seems to make sense. In the latest BCS rankings, six teams from the Southeastern Conference (five from the SEC West) are among the top 25. You will find two teams from the Western Athletic Conference (Boise State, Nevada) and Mountain West (TCU, Utah), which are not automatic BCS-bid leagues.


There are no Big East teams ranked.

See link for complete article.
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/fo...?page=full

Excellent article....

Interesting that he hinted that the hoops schools could break away from the all sports schools.

UCF has waited 15 years?

(10-29-2010 09:04 AM)animus Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting that he hinted that the hoops schools could break away from the all sports schools.

Not interested. What school is going to give up $4-5 million in revenue just to make UCF and Temple happy, really?

Interesting how he didn't mention taking BC off the hands of the ACC.

Doesn't make sense to try and "grab" Philadelphia when TCU is there for the taking. UCF and TCU together would be better than UCF and anyone else, IMO. If we were going to 12 then UCF, TCU, Houston, and Nova would make the most sense to me. TCU/Houston would be the Texas version of UCF/USF.

That's two very large colleges in large media markets and two solid private schools, also in large media markets.

If getting deep into the talent pool of Florida is important, then Texas should be just as important.

(10-29-2010 09:28 AM)DFW HOYA Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-29-2010 09:04 AM)animus Wrote: [ -> ]Interesting that he hinted that the hoops schools could break away from the all sports schools.

Not interested. What school is going to give up $4-5 million in revenue just to make UCF and Temple happy, really?

Interesting how he didn't mention taking BC off the hands of the ACC.

Doesn't mention how UCF and Temple will improve finances for the league, improve prestige for the league, get the pundits off the Big East's back or any of the issues. Also ignores that there isn't a likelihood the NCAA will change its stance on 10 team champ games.

(10-29-2010 09:35 AM)Garmuck Wrote: [ -> ]Doesn't make sense to try and "grab" Philadelphia when TCU is there for the taking. UCF and TCU together would be better than UCF and anyone else, IMO. If we were going to 12 then UCF, TCU, Houston, and Nova would make the most sense to me. TCU/Houston would be the Texas version of UCF/USF.

That's two very large colleges in large media markets and two solid private schools, also in large media markets.

If getting deep into the talent pool of Florida is important, then Texas should be just as important.

I approve this message. It seems from what I've read that TCU likes being unique - the only Texas school in the MWC and to be the only one in the BE. But the 2+2 setup just makes too much sense imho.

Maybe BB schools think mega conf are coming & if certain FB schools leave, it's not worth hanging on.
BB schools might have the opioun, that with mega conf coming,
they might be better off getting thier 1st

(10-29-2010 08:44 AM)KnightLight Wrote: [ -> ]National college football
The Boston Globe
Road map to better Big East
By Mark Blaudschun-National Football Writer
Globe Staff / October 29, 2010

Big East bashing is in fashion this fall, and if you look at the numbers, it seems to make sense. In the latest BCS rankings, six teams from the Southeastern Conference (five from the SEC West) are among the top 25. You will find two teams from the Western Athletic Conference (Boise State, Nevada) and Mountain West (TCU, Utah), which are not automatic BCS-bid leagues.


There are no Big East teams ranked.

See link for complete article.
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/fo...?page=full

i told u guys that they liked the big east in boston, they still have the big east regional game of the week on channel five, i believe twice it was uconn playing.

good catch knight?? i think we talked about central florida a bunch of times. it's a long strange trip how the big east and uconn get more coverage than umass..

:ugaexams:

Great article but ofcourse I would think it's a great idea.

(10-29-2010 10:54 AM)knightastic Wrote: [ -> ]:ugaexams:

Great article but ofcourse I would think it's a great idea.

i was checking your facilities and the knights have done a lot in the facilities area .....

I understand that this is more about money and not strength, fan support and tradition. In that case I can see how UCF would appeal more than ECU. I don't think they own the Orlando market or even go outside its boarders. I won't argue about ECU's appeal in NC and VA compared to Orlando. However, Will adding UCF strengthen the Big East in the BCS standings? Probably not. Adding ECU wouldn't either. I do think that the Big East has some good coaches in place and in another year or two they won't be in the position they are in.

Adding TCU gives you the strength, tradition, fan support and money. However, they are over 2,000 miles away from those BE teams in the real Northeast like UConn, Syracuse, Rutgers, etc.... I think every sports team in the BE will dread making that long trip down to Ft. Worth every year to play TCU. That is my opinion.

(10-29-2010 12:02 PM)Stookey57 Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-29-2010 10:54 AM)knightastic Wrote: [ -> ]:ugaexams:

Great article but ofcourse I would think it's a great idea.

i was checking your facilities and the knights have done a lot in the facilities area .....

It's virtually (K)night and day the difference of UCF's Facilities today...compared to the last time the Big East went shopping for new teams back during the summer/fall of 2003.

UCF's Athletic Village was just a pipe dream back then....but since then...UCF was the first school in over 60 plus years to open up a medium size on-campus football stadium and a 10,000 seat arena (or larger) in the same week...as these 2 new facilities opened up to the public just 6 days a part...and props to UCF for being able to build those facilities (and others) at the very same time.

UCF's first ever on-campus 45,300 seat football Stadium (opened Sept 2007)





New UCF Arena: 10,000 seat capacity (opened Sept 2007)











New Athletic Village (first ever in FLA)...home to 2,000 students in 4 new dorms, shops, restaurants, all surrounding the new arena with the football stadium and training facility right next door:





Only Collegiate 120 Yard Indoor Football Practice Facility in the State of Florida:



UCF has invested a ton of $$$$$...as obviously UCF had a lot of catching up to do...but many have said not only has UCF caught up, but in some cases, UCF has surpassed some schools in regards to facilities for various sports, even without any "BCS" $$$$.

Those are nice photo's. Thank you.

The article looks like something some one could write by simply putting all the good ideas from this board together in one article. Nothing new in it; just confirmation that most of us here aren't crazy when talk about Big East. With that being said I still don't expect anything to happen beyond Nova saying yes or no.
CJ

(10-29-2010 02:41 PM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]The article looks like something some one could write by simply putting all the good ideas from this board together in one article. Nothing new in it; just confirmation that most of us here aren't crazy when talk about Big East. With that being said I still don't expect anything to happen beyond Nova saying yes or no.
CJ

This reminds me of the South Park underpants gnomes.
Step One: Add UCF and Temple/Nova
Step Three: Profit! (and prestige)

Hey author, what's step two? How does this fix the problems that you listed? How does adding two teams that by any objective analysis are weaker than every program currently in the Big East and who both play 2nd fiddle in their OWN CITIES do anything to increase the prestige, stability, or cash flow of the rest of the league?

(10-29-2010 04:06 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: [ -> ]This reminds me of the South Park underpants gnomes.
Step One: Add UCF and Temple/Nova
Step Three: Profit! (and prestige)

Hey author, what's step two?

If so-called journalist could figure that out in regards to 99% of their columns/articles, none of them would be journalist.