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Holy Cow this is funny.

Swagger has a poll asking when to split the Big East's board.

http://csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=607076

Here is one UCF fan's response:

Can you create a board named "Purgatory" and just move the rest of us over there?

There are so many idiotic panicky stupid statements in this thread, I don't know where to start. When you are on a life raft and you realize that the raft has a hole, you don't get rid of the raft and decide "this raft is no good. I'll take my chances without it." You fix the hole. Football is the life raft, not the albatross. All of this is being driven by football, not basketball. The non football schools of the big east is going to find out the hard way that while they don't like their current lineup, it will be more lucrative than a conference without football. This isn't 1985.

I am just glad that some of you are simply message board fools and not actually in charge.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca...s/1767387/

"At stake in that breakup are tens of millions of dollars in exit fees from the departing members and NCAA basketball tournament credits. Those assets, as well as the Big East name and basketball tournament contract with Madison Square Garden, could be major bargaining chips in the negotiation to separate.

Also at issue is the BCS automatic bid the Big East possesses for 2013, worth upward of $20 million. No matter what form the separation takes, the remaining football members would retain the bid, according to a high-ranking person with knowledge of the BCS structure. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the situation is still in the hypothetical stages.

Though the BCS is being replaced by a playoff structure in 2014, having automatic qualifier status in 2013 could be a key in how the remaining schools proceed once the non-football schools make their move.

At this point, the Big East for 2013 would include holdovers UConn and Cincinnati, plus new all-sports additions Houston, SMU, Memphis, Temple, Central Florida and South Florida. Boise State and San Diego State agreed to join the Big East as football-only members in 2013. Rutgers and Louisville, departing for the Big Ten and ACC, respectively, are not supposed to join their new leagues until 2014, though the current instability could help them go earlier.

Whatever lineup the league produces, even if it didn't have the Big East name, would keep the BCS bid."

chill out and let the people in charge do what they have to do, we don't jack **** about what's going on anymore

(12-13-2012 11:01 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca...s/1767387/

"At stake in that breakup are tens of millions of dollars in exit fees from the departing members and NCAA basketball tournament credits. Those assets, as well as the Big East name and basketball tournament contract with Madison Square Garden, could be major bargaining chips in the negotiation to separate.

Also at issue is the BCS automatic bid the Big East possesses for 2013, worth upward of $20 million. No matter what form the separation takes, the remaining football members would retain the bid, according to a high-ranking person with knowledge of the BCS structure. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the situation is still in the hypothetical stages.

Though the BCS is being replaced by a playoff structure in 2014, having automatic qualifier status in 2013 could be a key in how the remaining schools proceed once the non-football schools make their move.

At this point, the Big East for 2013 would include holdovers UConn and Cincinnati, plus new all-sports additions Houston, SMU, Memphis, Temple, Central Florida and South Florida. Boise State and San Diego State agreed to join the Big East as football-only members in 2013. Rutgers and Louisville, departing for the Big Ten and ACC, respectively, are not supposed to join their new leagues until 2014, though the current instability could help them go earlier.

Whatever lineup the league produces, even if it didn't have the Big East name, would keep the BCS bid."

For one year, and will probably be the laughing stock, you know ever sports talk guy with an opinion will be blasting the Big East next year, even more than the last couple years.

Imagine how Tulane feels right now. They are getting hammered.

Damn!!! The "Green Grass Syndrome" is in full effect.

I wanted the Big East dead as a footbal playing league since the merger of the two.
But who could have guest inviting Tulane would do the trick, Tulane the league killer.
Maybe we can get Tulane back into the SEC

The delusions of grandeur by the defectors is quite staggering.

Tulane to the Alabama BOT

(12-14-2012 09:55 AM)rebounder2u Wrote:  Maybe we can get Tulane back into the SEC

Love the idea and the thought of the consequences.

(12-13-2012 09:14 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Belonging to the BOT it does has held us back.

(bells ringing, truckers' horn & sirens blaring!!!)...Score a direct hit!!!

(12-13-2012 09:13 PM)tibber Wrote:  can anyone deny that our football program being in the state it's in has held us back?

Yes. I deny it.

Would we be better off if our football program had performed better? Yes.

But remember, Gene Bartow wanted football at UAB because he knew that football was going to drive everything going forward. He was right.

Fix football and UAB's stock will improve. It started by hiring a non-BOT guy to coach the team. Now, let's win!

If it wasn't for football, we probably would still be in the Sun Belt or Colonial Conference all these years. We left the Sun Belt to join the Great Midwest. When the Great Midwest broke up, we would have been homeless because CUSA was going to be all sports. I don't think we would have gone to the Colonial because of the geography, so we would have probably gone back to the Sun Belt. Eventually we would have started football because everyone is doing so, but it would be a decade or so later than we did. We would have probably just now received our invitation to join CUSA.

TSN on the chances of Cincy and UConn starting a new conference, keeping the best of remaining BE and raiding the Mountain West and possible raiding Duke and Wake from the ACC.

Who know what's going to happen? Yeesh.

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketb...onnecticut

I'd say they have a slim chance and none is not far behind. My hope is they get raised and these are about 5 teams with no place to go.

Its Official...
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...ng-members

Duke & Wake would not leave the ACC unless a few others left first for other conferences.

More likely that UConn and, maybe Cincy, join ACC...

Yep.