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McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Quote:Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN 8m
Tulsa will join old Big East & East Carolina will be added as full member in 2014, sources told @ESPN
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Full story: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...ng-sources
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Quote:Aresco said Tuesday he expects the league to have 11 schools in 2014.
Tulsa will leave Conference USA on July 1, 2014 to join the soon-to-be-renamed Big East along with East Carolina and Tulane. At that time, Rutgers and Louisville will leave for the Big Ten and ACC, respectively.
The addition of Tulsa, East Carolina and Tulane will give the league 11 members with Navy scheduled to join July 1, 2015.
When Navy joins, the league will be split into two six-team divisions and will hold a conference football championship, which will be televised on ESPN or ABC. The conference championship will be held at the stadium of the highest-rated division champion. The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source said.
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2013 02:40 PM by Chappy.)
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:38 PM)Chappy Wrote: Full story: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...ng-sources
Welcome Tallgrass & Company!
Quote:Aresco said Tuesday he expects the league to have 11 schools in 2014.
Tulsa will leave Conference USA on July 1, 2014 to join the soon-to-be-renamed Big East along with East Carolina and Tulane. At that time, Rutgers and Louisville will leave for the Big Ten and ACC, respectively.
The addition of Tulsa, East Carolina and Tulane will give the league 11 members with Navy scheduled to join July 1, 2015.
When Navy joins, the league will be split into two six-team divisions and will hold a conference football championship, which will be televised on ESPN or ABC. The conference championship will be held at the stadium of the highest-rated division champion. The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source said.
Well it's nice to finally have some direction. If you are not moving you aren't going anywhere.....Cheers to having a plan.... I would venture a guess this will involve an East and West division... and I think this will work out better than all the SDSU/ Boise State/BYU nonsense. This conference deserves the "Survival ESPY".
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2013 02:59 PM by USAFMEDIC.)
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Yep, and I love that east division. Each one of those football games are against someone I am interested to see ECU play.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
You could also make a case for a pseudo north-south:
North: UConn, Temple, Navy, Cincy, Memphis, ECU
South: UCF, USF, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Heck, you could still probably call that East-West, much like the SEC does.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Doubt Cincinnati would be pleased with being in the west.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Zipper is better:
UCF/USF
SMU/Houston
Tulane/Tulsa
Memphis/Cincy
ECU/Navy
UCONN/Temple
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Sounds to me that the press conference on Tulsa/ECU all sports won't be held until the week after the NCAA tournament.
Probably a week later CUSA will announce its addition(s).
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Gonna be fun to listen to Trollgrass. I might actually have to take him off ignore just to read how he deals with this.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:55 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote: Doubt Cincinnati would be pleased with being in the west.
I don't really see any scenario where Cincinnati, UConn and USF will be pleased.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:55 PM)curtis0620 Wrote: Zipper is better:
UCF/USF
SMU/Houston
Tulane/Tulsa
Memphis/Cincy
ECU/Navy
UCONN/Temple
Makes much more sense for Cincinnati.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
Good deal for the Pirates!
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:55 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Doubt Cincinnati would be pleased with being in the west.
Hope the league does not make decisions to try to please 1 school who is sending christmas cards to ACC presidents. Whatever makes the most sense for the league is what needs to be done. East/West makes the most sense. North/South puts the Texas and Florida schools all in 1 division and that's not good, and zipper just adds pointless travel costs.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:58 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:55 PM)curtis0620 Wrote: Zipper is better:
UCF/USF
SMU/Houston
Tulane/Tulsa
Memphis/Cincy
ECU/Navy
UCONN/Temple
Makes much more sense for Cincinnati.
Makes much less sense for everyone else.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:54 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Yep, and I love that east division. Each one of those football games are against someone I am interested to see ECU play.
Nice, but I wish they would have added So. Miss. That would have capped an awesome west division. Some history between those guys...
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 03:03 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:54 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:49 PM)Wedge Wrote: Quote: The league has not decided how to split the divisions, a source
East-west would be an obvious way to go.
East: UConn, Temple, ECU, Navy, UCF, USF
West: Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, SMU
Yep, and I love that east division. Each one of those football games are against someone I am interested to see ECU play.
Nice, but I wish they would have added So. Miss. That would have capped an awesome west division. Some history between those guys...
If a member leaves during the TV contract, I think Southern Miss is in....they just seem to fit with this group...especially if its UConn that leaves. As well, there is a remote possibility that Army could decide they want in at some point and in that case, the league probably goes to 14 FB and 12 all sports.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 02:57 PM)Chappy Wrote: (03-26-2013 02:55 PM)OrangeCrush22 Wrote: Doubt Cincinnati would be pleased with being in the west.
I don't really see any scenario where Cincinnati, UConn and USF will be pleased.
Aren't they getting paid?
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
SMU, Houston, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis
UConn, Temple, Cincinnati, ECU
I think these schools should be kept together. Then it becomes a decision to split the FLA schools or throw Navy west.
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RE: McMurphy: Tulsa & ECU in C-TBA for all sports in 2014
(03-26-2013 03:13 PM)esayem Wrote: SMU, Houston, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis
UConn, Temple, Cincinnati, ECU
I think these schools should be kept together. Then it becomes a decision to split the FLA schools or throw Navy west.
Throwing Navy west is probably the better option. They are a national school. It gives the Eastern teams the FL exposure for recruiting and it gives the others TX recruiting.
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