(11-01-2010 11:30 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  Oh, the Big East has a lot of different circumstances than the Big Ten, for sure. It's just that, as bluesox alluded to, a 20-team league is really just 2 different conferences with a scheduling arrangement no matter what type of label you want to slap on it. A 16 school league is already freaking huge and we've already seen Big East schools lose NCAA Tournament bids as a result of it. If you're going up to 20 schools, then what the heck is the point of advancing the hybrid anymore? At that point, the league just needs to split (and I'm not a "split for the sake of splitting" proponent at all). A currently super-sized league going up to a mega-sized league just won't work well in practicality - schools won't play each other, even more NCAA Tournament bids will be lost, etc.

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16 teams is unwieldy now. why make things worse by adding teams? the football schools need to stop demurring to the basketball side. they should have split off en-masse when the big twelven was in major instability and asked kansas, k-state, mizzou, and iowa state to join up in a conference. 12 teams, no hybrid and enough teams in football to do a championship game.

but we all know that doing the right thing for this conference is nearly impossible. if all they care about is markets for a possible big east network, they should consider san diego state and a school in the los angeles area. why not? it makes as much sense as a 20 team "conference" where teams may play each other once in 3 years.