http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...ast-to-vote-on-increasing-exit-fees-on-friday Big East to accomplish nothing tomorrow. Stuff needs 3/4 to pass so 11 schools need to approve, so guess which 4 will say no to everything. Latest rumor I heard is WVU jumped in front of indecisive Mizzou and will soon be team #14 in the SEC, deal announced on Sunday so it won't be #1 headline.
The Big East has officially become a disgrace... Boise and AFA are being extended invitations soon to be followed by Navy, SMU, UCF and Houston. http://voices.idahostatesman.com/20...tend_invitations_boise_state_air_force_others
They keep pushing the date to later and later and they still haven't voted on the fee yet and if that fails today they're screwed.
I've also heard that Louisville and WVU are not voting on any of this which tells me they are gone as soon as the chance arrives.
As a fan of a conference that seems to be the only one being ripped apart by this garbage I can't help but wonder if this was part of some bigger plan by the Big 6? Maybe not. It's possible the Big 5 don't want to share the pot with a conference that is sending 8-4 teams to one of "their" games. I wish Missouri could hurry their ass up. They're holding out for a Big 10 invite that isn't coming. Once they move then all the rest of the dominoes will fall in place. They'll go to the SEC. The Big 12 will add 3 teams to even out at 12 and the schools that outside of Boise have no business being in an AQ conference can go back to the conferences they belong in. I was a fan of this when it made sense regionally, Nebraska to the Big 10 made sense, Utah and Colorado while not Pacific schools I'll buy. WVU and Louisville to the Big 12 maybe stretching it. Even UCF and ECU to the Big East but Boise and Air Force to the Big East? That's ridiculous. I also love how they tell Temple that they sucked and weren't good enough but now all of a sudden they need and want Temple. I just wish we had a playoff and all of this nonsense would be over with.
Sounds like the MWC and C-USA have a joint teleconference tonight. So good-bye Big East if the merger happens.
Word is Air Force, Boise, UCF, Houston and SMU will not be part of the merger and the MWC is going to add San Jose State.... thank God UNLV basketball practice starts today because I may need it with how sick this makes me.
Word is Air Force and Boise will decline, UCF is thinking about it, Houston is a whore and SMU goes both ways.
Despite all of this the Big East still hasn't sent a single invite and ND is in charge of the expansion. :lol:
Well I guess ND is not going to get the sweet deal it has in the BE http://www.dailypress.com/sports/te...membership-20111019,0,4211491.story?track=rss Teel Time: ACC commissioner John Swofford slams door on partial Notre Dame membership ACC commissioner John Swofford made news at the conference’s preseason basketball gabfest Wednesday. Very good news for those of us who appreciate the league’s historic sense of equity. “We're an all-in, revenue-equal conference,” Swofford said here at the Charlotte Ritz-Carlton. “That's very basic to us. That's what works for us. ... I think going forward we will continue to consider equal revenue sharing and full membership or no membership (important) in our conference. I don't see that changing. ” Notre Dame clings to football independence and annual games against Michigan, Southern California, Purdue and Navy like a cub clings to Mama Bear. But the Irish compete in the Big East for other sports, and with that conference more unstable than the San Andreas Fault, speculation is rampant about them hunting a new league home. “I'm concerned, there's no question about it,” Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey told the Chicago Tribune recently. “The Big East has been great for us. That connection back to the East for our basketball program is very important. Playing in that corridor back there has been very important for us. … “I hope we can keep the Big East together. If not, we need something in the East. I've told (athletic director) Jack (Swarbrick) that.” The Big East is about to lose Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the ACC, while West Virginia and Louisville are mentioned frequently as possible Big 12 targets. It’s likely to add Houston, SMU and Central Florida. ACC membership would allow Notre Dame to retain that Eastern connection, not to mention align academically with the likes of Virginia, Duke, North Carolina, Boston College, etc. But the Irish would have to bring their storied football program, which generates more than $10 million annually in television revenue. “I think the strength of the ACC has been its academics, its integrity and its equal (distribution) of income,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Wednesday. “I would not want any member that had an outside game.” Krzyzewski’s boss, Blue Devils athletic director Kevin White, is a former Notre Dame AD. He’s also a member of the ACC’s expansion committee, an obvious link between the parties. Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage agrees with Swofford and Krzyzewski. “It’s a difficult thing for me to feel that helps our conference,” he told me recently about the prospect of partial Notre Dame membership. “Again, a guiding principle of the conference is that we’re all in it together, we’re all in. … I would just have personal reservations.” Good for the ACC. Absent football, what would Notre Dame bring to the conference besides a sense of entitlement? The ACC already is stocked with premier programs in men’s and women’s basketball, and most Olympic sports. So if the Irish want all in, the ACC will leave the light on for them and then find a 16th, likely Connecticut. Otherwise, no hard feelings and have a nice life. Swofford’s other news item Wednesday was about the ACC basketball tournament. Whenever Syracuse and Pitt negotiate their exit from the Big East, the ACC will stand at 14 schools, a very awkward tournament number. Indeed, to include all teams at a central venue would most likely require adding a fifth day to the event. But Swofford prefers that to keeping the tournament at 12 teams and four days and excluding two schools. The Big East excluded two from its tournament when the conference operated at 14 teams for four years earlier this decade – Virginia Tech was among the outcasts three of those years. And the ACC includes only eight teams in its baseball tournament. “I think the sense of the group is ... it is important that all 14 be there” at the basketball tournament, Swofford said. Krzyzewski, the coach who seems most engaged in realignment issues, concurs on the 14-team tournament and said with the addition of Syracuse and Pitt, “we’ve taken the reins of being No. 1 in basketball. If you’re No. 1 in (either football or basketball), you’ve got leverage.” Krzyzewski also believes expansion has cemented ACC membership, precluding defections to rivals such as the Southeastern Conference or Big Ten. “We have basically told the world, ‘We’re strong,’” Krzyzewski said. “Why would anyone want to leave strength?” Swofford also sees the league as stable. “When I sit around our table with our presidents and athletic directors, I see nothing but full commitment to each other and to the league,” he said. “We've had one team (South Carolina in 1971) leave the conference in close to 60 years. So it's been a solid group to hang out with.” Copyright © 2011, Newport News, Va., Daily Press
Looks like Mizzou has taken another step towards joining the SEC... http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-tigers-give-chancellor-authority-strike-deal
Hopefully it gets done before the Big 12 meeting Monday, so the Big 12 can expand to 12 and take WVU, Louisville, and Cincy thus killing the Big East as a football conference.
And preventing the MWC from losing Boise and AFA as well as keeping UCF/Houston/SMU in "the alliance" it probably puts USF back into CUSA as well.
Looks like the hold up with Mizzou to the SEC is ND might join the Big 12> http://blogs.courier-journal.com/ri...rting-with-big-12-without-football-of-course/ Notre Dame Flirtation With Big 12 Making Missouri Pause? Posted on October 25, 2011 by Rick Bozich We’ve heard every other rumor as this conference realignment game has played out. So how about this one that a bird from the conference realignment world delivered late Monday night? Notre Dame exchanging love notes with the Big 12 about the possibility of moving its sports (not football) from the Big East to the Big 12? The Big East is gasping for breath. No question mark needed there. The Big 12 would be happy to help — and stabilize itself and possibly stiff-arm the SEC. Of course, there would be a football element involved. The Irish would agree to schedule six football games a year against Big 12 schools — three at home, three on the road. Notre Dame-Texas? Notre Dame-Oklahoma? That’s some pretty pricey inventory. NBC would be interested in that. Plus, it would protect the Irish if the Big Ten schools started balking at playing the Irish. Missouri would be cut in on the lucrative Irish action, getting the Irish either at home or in South Bend every season. Might explain the hold-up in Missouri’s flight to the SEC, which has momentarily stalled. We do know that the Big 12 is fighting back, "encouraging," Missouri to stay. That’s some pretty spicy encouragement. Stay tuned.
:rofl: You really picked the wrong article to post. http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/WVUSports/201110250055 West Virginia is the newest member of the Big 12, press conference tomorrow meaning Mizzou to SEC is happening once the paperwork is done. ND to Big 12 is a ploy by Texas to eventually get their own Independence.
This is insanity but it appears there is a meeting taking place tomorrow between the MWC/CUSA and BE Commish about the BE joining the alliance with MWC/CUSA. Apparently Utah St and San Jose State could be brought in to make it an even 28. My Rebels potentially playing my home state school of Rutgers. Please sign me up for this.This news came out after the WVU news. There is even potential to go to 32 teams which could be a variety of teams but my guess is North Texas and UT San Antonio would be at the top of the list. 4 divisions of 7 West: Hawaii UNLV Nevada Fresno San Jose St SDSU Boise Mountain: Wyoming New Mexico Air Force Colorado St UTEP SMU Tulsa South: Houston Rice UAB Southern Miss Tulane Memphis Marshall East: Louisville Rutgers Cinci Uconn ECU UCF USF http://www.lvrj.com/sports/mountain...ast-chief-about-joining-forces-132528493.html
Apparently the BE is denying that this meeting is taking place. Wonder if it's a case of not wanting to let your friends know that your secretly banging the ugly girl down the street with the nice body.
