(05-15-2017 12:47 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 08:51 AM)megadrone Wrote:  Villanova is not going to move up. They explored it all in the 2009-2010 timeframe. They lack options for a stadium unless they played at Franklin Field and would have perpetual scheduling conflicts with Penn.

The Eagles really want Temple out of the Linc and charge them very high rent. That's not an option for Villanova either.

The Villanova administration is probably very happy in the Big East. If anything, they were contemplating downgrading football to non-scholarship and joining the Patriot League.

Except that was trying to meet the Big East standards. Being an Indy FBS, they can have lower standards for stadiums and attendance. Its a big difference. They could expand their current stadium to meet the 15 k requirement like Coastal Carolina is doing.

They like FCS level football. They had nearly 20 years to consider upgrading to an AQ conference and put a half-assed plan together to do so, mostly to keep the Big East happy when the conference wanted to expand past 8 members without making the basketball side too unwieldy.

They are not upgrading. Period. If anything, when Talley retires, they will downgrade to non-scholarship football.

Basketball is their bread-and-butter. They are very happy with the Big East as it is.