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What do you think?

He should be, but he won't be.

I doubt it.

I expect that the BE will try and agree to some increased exit penalty to keep the schools they have, and anybody who signs it is foolish. The BE needs to realize that it is not going to be able to bring anybody else in until the Big 12/SEC situations are resolved.

The BBall schools love him. He's staying.

(09-30-2011 12:34 PM)cinbinsportsfan Wrote: [ -> ]The BBall schools love him. He's staying.

As pointed out in this article about the pending Big East implosion.

Implosion Sunday

(09-30-2011 11:37 AM)brista21 Wrote: [ -> ]He should be, but he won't be.

He'll stay because the BE has been Genshafted lol.

He should lose all of his football schools on Sunday, and we leave him to the basketball schools as a parting gift.

Basketball interest was against a strong football conference in the east, since it would diminish their power and influence in eastern athletics. Since the football school's were unable to control their own destiny, with everyone having a different priority, it was doomed to fail from the start. Nobody could agree on anything, except the non-football schools, who could always count on a couple of the schools that have already bailed on the conference backing them up. By destroying any chance for an eastern all-sports conference to form, the non-football schools have managed to stave off their eventual diminishment to mid major status by a decade or 2. But once the football side of the conference is gone, that process will begin, as the BCS conferences the football schools fled to begin to take over...

(09-30-2011 12:54 PM)vinman3 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-30-2011 12:34 PM)cinbinsportsfan Wrote: [ -> ]The BBall schools love him. He's staying.

As pointed out in this article about the pending Big East implosion.

Implosion Sunday

Are we sure that's a viable source? If so, Herbst (UConn's president) better have a contingency plan...

(09-30-2011 01:58 PM)uconnbaseball Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-30-2011 12:54 PM)vinman3 Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-30-2011 12:34 PM)cinbinsportsfan Wrote: [ -> ]The BBall schools love him. He's staying.

As pointed out in this article about the pending Big East implosion.

Implosion Sunday

Are we sure that's a viable source? If so, Herbst (UConn's president) better have a contingency plan...

The contingency plan would be a new league, I imagine. Whoever doesn't get picked up by either the ACC/Big 10/Big 12 or SEC will need to form a new conference, assuming it's more than one or two teams.

By carefully chosing among the remaining candidates, they should be able to attract enough good football schools to make a bid to keep their AQ status. But first they need to break away from the non-football schools...

If the football schools split, there are enough BCS representations in there to keep an AQ for that new league if they could work something out. While I hope we get into the Big 12, I wouldn't be disappointed if the 7 schools stuck together and made a new all sports conference. There are 4 legit Basketball powers, and at least 6 recent BCS bowl bids out of those schools. It would be amazing for a solid core to come out of this, but I think it's doubtful.

(09-30-2011 11:23 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote: [ -> ]What do you think?

We can only hope! But it won't happen. And if it did, who in their right mind would come into the BEast situation. No one of quality that is for sure.

Interesting that, in the lack of any information, Marinatto's support must come fromn those (hiss! booo!) basketball schools.

Would be interesting if two or three I-A presidents were actually his biggest supporters.