(06-29-2019 01:53 PM)DFW HOYA Wrote:  

(06-26-2019 06:27 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  Oh, I think it very much IS the same Big East. It was supposedly one of the current basketball schools who didn’t want TCU there, and the Horned Frogs got out of that place too cheap. Yeah, that ain’t happening again.

Your confusing TCU with Tulane. No issues with the Frogs but when they got a better deal from the Big 12, they took the Big 12 offer. To its credit, they kept their word and paid the Big East exit fee even though they had never technically entered the conference. They left on good terms.

The addition of Tulane and ECU did stir up the independence movement among the basketball schools. Previous football additions had some semblance of basketball at places like Memphis, SMU, Houston, etc., but basketball at Tulane had about as much national impact as football at Georgetown.

Last year's Green Wave averaged less than 1,500 a game.

They had no issue with UCF because they did everything asked of them since being rejected in the previous round, especially from a facilities standpoint.