There will be more programs changing conferences in the next 2 years. When Lville & Cincy leave the BE for the Big 12 (B12 will need a 12th team and Cincy gives both Lville & WVA a good travel partner) the Big East will be down to 10 assuming that UCONN & Rutgers arent' invited by the ACC.

When that move happens the BE would be wise to simply negotiate a deal with the MWC to admit all of it's membership for football only. It would allow the MWC to exist for hoops & olympic sports and make a transition much easier, no more having to find another conference for hoops & olympic sports.

Adding
WYO
CSU
AFA,
NM
Fresno,
Nev
UNLV and
Hawaii

To
Boise St
SDST
USF
UCF
Houston
SMU
Memphis
Navy
Temple(assuming they are in)
Rutgers and
UConn

Takes the BE from being the smallest AQ conference to the largest AQ conference with teams playing in 5 time zones thus giving the network that wins it's contract the ability to broadcast games from early Sat AM to early Sunday AM(Hawaii) or nearly a continuous 24 hour cycle of football.

Further these 19 programs either reside in or are very near the host cities of nearly half the current 35 bowl games. The smaller bowls will almost always be attendance challenged and more likely than ever to offer a bid to a local team that's eligible who will have an easier time geting fans to attend than one that has to travel a distance.

Being in 5 time zones, in or near half the 35 current bowl sites and being in the NYC(Rutgers & UCONN), Philly(Temple), Baltimore(Navy), DC(Navy), Tampa(USF) Orlando(UCF), Memphis, Houston, Dallas(SMU), Albuquerque(NM), Denver(AFA & CSU), Las Vegas, SanDiego, central California(Fresno) & Hawaii TV markets should net the Big East a sizeable TV contract and the likelihood that it will be NBC sports that gets them, they will be the headlining college conference on that network.

2 divisions with a 9 game division only conference schedule and a championship game between 2 teams that haven't played each other during the regular season should make for interesting TV.