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College Football 2010: Dude, Where's my Conference?

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JF_Gophers said:
I enjoyed the idea someone on ESPN threw out last week.

Put TCU, BSU, Utah, Utah State, and BYU in a conference and give them the Big East's auto-bid. You could probably find a viable 6th team if needed.
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Yeah, I think it was Tony Kornheiser who said that. Though I chuckled when he included Utah State. What exactly have they done to merit inclusion?
 
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JF_Gophers said:
I enjoyed the idea someone on ESPN threw out last week.

Put TCU, BSU, Utah, Utah State, and BYU in a conference and give them the Big East's auto-bid. You could probably find a viable 6th team if needed.
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I would think you could throw teams like Hawaii, Colorado State and Air Force in there too and it wouldn't be a bad conference.
 
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Kepler said:
In all seriousness, how does the Big East hold onto their BCS slot? Is it about the Philly and NYC markets?
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Because they're contractually in until 2011, as a result of meeting the minimum standard of inclusion from the years 2004-07 (which are coincidentally the league's worst, from a national perspective).
 
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kingdobbs said:
Because they're contractually in until 2011, as a result of meeting the minimum standard of inclusion from the years 2004-07 (which are coincidentally the league's worst, from a national perspective).
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I thought it was until 2013.
 
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Kepler said:
This might be more a case of the Big East descending than Nova ascending.

In all seriousness, how does the Big East hold onto their BCS slot? Is it about the Philly and NYC markets?
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True, personally I could see the Big East making plays for Marshall and Memphis, Marshall would give them a little more respectablity in football, while Memphis gives them another solid basketball program along with a football program. I still think the Big East would do well to squeeze Norte Dame a little as well, if nothing more than to get them to play Big East Teams a little more often. Even if they're all in South Bend, with ND's NBC contract, thats still good exposure for those programs.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
True, personally I could see the Big East making plays for Marshall and Memphis, Marshall would give them a little more respectablity in football, while Memphis gives them another solid basketball program along with a football program. I still think the Big East would do well to squeeze Norte Dame a little as well, if nothing more than to get them to play Big East Teams a little more often. Even if they're all in South Bend, with ND's NBC contract, thats still good exposure for those programs.
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I'm sure the Big East has tried that sotto voce, and I'm just as sure the Irish gave them a big yawn.
 
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Kepler said:
This might be more a case of the Big East descending than Nova ascending.

In all seriousness, how does the Big East hold onto their BCS slot? Is it about the Philly and NYC markets?
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big east is not that much worse than the acc football wise. granted, miami and fsu can get back to what they were a decade ago at any time.. but since miami moved from the big east to the acc they've been lousy - and fsu has been right there with them.

what hurt the big east is wvu was primed to step up, and they fell flat after rodriguez jumped. while they were playing well, they were better than acc best (vtech).

but right now they are the bottom of the auto bids, though the pac10 could rival that at any time now that they've lost their meal ticket.

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That "best" team in the Big East is really lighting it up against Marshall tonight. :rolleyes:
 
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I can't believe SJSU vs Wisconsin is the best ESPN could do tomorrow morning?
 
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Kepler said:
This might be more a case of the Big East descending than Nova ascending.

In all seriousness, how does the Big East hold onto their BCS slot? Is it about the Philly and NYC markets?
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If Nova can move into the field Temple uses then I don't see a real problem... as long as Nova ACTUALLY wants to pour in the big time dollars..... every other league member right now is throwing the dollars into it... Rutty has expanded, UConn built 100 million in training facilities... I'd have to investigate to run down the others.

You also have to note that there other matters at play... i know a lot of people have talked about ditching the basketball schools. This would provide that 9th vote to beat the Catholic bloc.

I wouldn't consider this a bad thing if it comes to pass... its all a matter of what Villanova will bring to the table.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
True, personally I could see the Big East making plays for Marshall and Memphis, Marshall would give them a little more respectablity in football, while Memphis gives them another solid basketball program along with a football program. I still think the Big East would do well to squeeze Norte Dame a little as well, if nothing more than to get them to play Big East Teams a little more often. Even if they're all in South Bend, with ND's NBC contract, thats still good exposure for those programs.
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Marhshall does no such thing and adds another team in the middle nowhere.... same for Memphis... its just a bigger nowhere. I know people have talked about UCF to get a larger presence in Florida. I remember somebody mentioning TCU... but that one requires a strong giggle.
 
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I think any additions to the Big East in all sports would be predicated on losing one or more teams to raiding by another conference. But if that happens, you'd have to think, at this stage, it would involve something revolving around the collapse of the XII; following the dominoes, there are probably at least a couple of teams from that wreckage that would be more attractive to the Big East than one of the mid-major teams like Memphis or Marshall.
 
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The biggest prize left in the big XII after Texas, Texas A&M, and oklahoma split would be Kansas and Kansas State. Kinda hard to really see them wanting to make east coast trips all of the time.
 
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Blame Boston College for all of this. They got greedy and left the easier path to a BCS bowl and ironically more money. Nothing about BC screams ACC. I could understand Miami and Va Tech, but not BC. The Eagles weren't even the first choice for the Boston market (no pun intended.) Holy Cross was. Imagine how insignificant BC would be if Dave Gavette decided to go ask BU or if HC accepted. And here I thought, the fathers said money was evil. :D

Also, I'm wondering if Georgetown will be coming soon after to get the DC market for the Big East.
 
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