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Well, many of you all probably already know that the Big East is falling apart.
Here is an article about how the BE Catholic Bball schools are leaving and some information about the future of that conference: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college...&eref=sihp

Any impact for ODU?
Will we get ECU back in CUSA?
Discuss away!

I think it will have an impact on ODU. Right away? No. 3-5 years? Yes...

but meanwhile in a Harrisonburg corner office...

Jeff Bourne is currently unavailable for comment

Well dammit, there's only going to be like a 3 team Big East Field Hockey now... :-( Wood better be looking other places too.

(12-13-2012 01:40 PM)smudge12 Wrote: [ -> ]An auto bid for one of the conferences, most likely the Sun Belt, is in serious jeopardy:

For an auto, six teams must have played together for five consecutive years.

nBE
Houston
Memphis
Tulane
Southern Methodist
Central Florida

They need one more. I assume ECU's invite becomes all-sport.

C-USA
Group 1
Marshall
Rice
Southern Mississippi
Tulsa
Alabama-Birmingham
Texas-El Paso

Group 2
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Middle Tennessee State
North Texas

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If the new Big East takes one more Conference USA team from Group 1, Conference USA will lose it's auto bids unless they take two more teams from the Sun Belt to get to the magic number of six core members that have played together for five consecutive years (Group 2). If that happens, the Sun Belt would lose its auto bid as they would only have four members that have played together for such a time.

Ouch.
Well done, Smudge.

I'm sure the NCAA will have mercy because of all this realignment and all conferences will keep their bids.

Do ya'll think we'll be Big East one day?

If you want a very funny read, go over to the Mason Boards at the CAABozone and read their thread about them getting an invite from the 7 BE BB schools. God I laughed so hard I almost wet my pants.

I couldn't decide which was funnier, penisfanforlife starting the thread and his comments, or the rest of those deluded posters thinking he was right.....

Up until this point, I think most people that follow conference realignment could make educated guesses and assumptions of what will happen, with reasonable accuracy.

Now, I have no idea. And I don't think anyone else will as there are a ton of variables, and this will literally change by the day or month.

The Big10 may not be done, nor the SEC. If there's any change in the ACC (which there most likely will), it will probably affect us in some way.

All I think all we can do is see what happens, and take the best opportunities available.

One thing about the Big East is that in 2013, it will STILL have it's BCS bid.

It's just one year, but I think that's a pretty big deal considering millions at stake.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca...s/1767311/

Looks like the 7 Catholic schools pulling out of the BE have some targets in mind:

@AdamZagoria: Hearing Xavier, Butler, VCU, Dayton, St. Louis, Gonzaga and St. Mary's all among targets to join the former Big East Catholic schools

This list reminds me of those tests that ask you to pick out the one item that doesn't belong.

Did they learn nothing from what's happened the last couple of months? Granted it would be a great basketball league but what sense does it make for Gonzaga and St. Mary's to send their non-revenue sports from Washington and Cali to DC, Philly, RI, NY, etc. and vice versa? Is the new TV deal for this C7 league going to be so lucrative that it makes up for all that travel? I doubt it but common sense in NCAA went away a long time ago

This is as convoluted a mess as I could ever imagine. There is no way we know what is going to happen until it happens, but I find it hard to believe that there is any imminent, direct impact on ODU.

Looks like it is done.....

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/183377221.html

This is a long long long way from over to be sure, but one thing is certain, with a very attractive young football program, a highly rated tv market, a highly highly rated recruiting pool in our backyard and a basketball program with a history of success (despite our current struggles), odu remains an attractive candidate for moving up to any new conference realignment with cusa remnants and big east remnants.

I highly doubt, 3 years from now, cusa exists in the exact same capacitys that it exists now.......some of the current cusa cast offs who are left stranded in the big east (like Memphis, ecu, Houston etc.) could very well be heading back to cusa to save money and face.

Why stay in a ridiculously spread out, watered down big east for an extra couple hundred thousand a year when you can come back to cusa, play in an upgraded conference and have a much easier time with keeping down costs of lower revenue sports by having much closer teams to play. Memphis now has a traveling partner with mtsu, ecu has odu and Charlotte, Houston would have utsa and utep etc.

Cusa may not be ideal, but it would definitely look better to me than a watered down, very spread out big east with no basketball schools to help earn a better tv contract.

Stay tuned, this is a long way from being over.

VCU remains in the A10.

The A10 goes after Drexel, Hofstra, George Jefferson and Delaware.

The CAA is destroyed.

Based on the interview I saw with Terry Holland today it doesn't sound like they are going back to CUSA at all and in fact it sounded like they would stay the course and build whatever "conf" is left that they are in.

(12-13-2012 09:06 PM)Cr8n Wrote: [ -> ]Based on the interview I saw with Terry Holland today it doesn't sound like they are going back to CUSA at all and in fact it sounded like they would stay the course and build whatever "conf" is left that they are in.

Yeah, but that conference will include a bunch of CUSA teams, because that's the next level.

Heck, in 2 years ODU could be in a football and basketball conference with UConn and Cincy.