May only be for football. I can't possibly believe big east basketball would fold, it's the most powerful conference in the country.
Will be interesting to see what happens there. Also, regarding the ACC's 20 million number, if the SEC invited schools to only join the conference in football would that require a buy-out? ACC Basketball usually rivals the Big East as the power conference in bball. Lol@Texas interested in the ACC and the PAC. They don't belong anywhere but the best conference in the country. SEC. The little brother school should not get the invite, UT should instead, and A&M can go to CUSA for all I care. If we have to suck it up and take Oklahoma too that's just 20-40 million we're out in ACC buy-out's to even it all out. Expansion will also mean the end of my school's football program. Shit, MS State's will be over too. MS legislature doesn't allow our athletic budgets to be competitive in what coach salaries are about to look like. Ever since we let Cutcliff go coach Duke over 1 bad season after Eli we deserved the death penalty anyway. Sherrill earned State one too.
Big East basketball will never be the same after 'Cuse and Pitt leaving. Sad because that conference had/has such good college basketball.
Big East should just invite Duke and Louisville in. Imagine the strength of that conference then. Won't happen but if the want to keep basketball alive I am sure they can find a couple of good replacements.
"If the two schools are to join the ACC, Krzyzewski doesn't want the conference to stop at 14 teams. He said he'd like to see 16 teams, taking two more schools that have comparable rich basketball traditions and are in the Eastern time zone. An ACC official told USA Today that Connecticut and Rutgers would be the candidates." http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...-pittsburgh-panthers-syracuse-orange-coup-acc And then the fat lady sings...shame.
Big East football < MAC football It would be interesting to see what they would do with that automatic qualifier. Big East basketball took a huge blow but should be fine, it still has a number of strong teams
Delusional, SEC won't be taking any ACC schools anytime soon as most of them them don't give them any new markets and wouldn't have the vote required to get in. If the SEC expands eastward then all they'll get is Louisville and West Virginia.
Louisville is already in the Big East and no way Duke moves to the Big East, Krzyzewski has been praising the new additions of Pitt and Cuse to the ACC already. Sad to say but unless the Big East can pick up some of these teams like Kansas, or Kansas St., there's probably going to be no way the Big East survives. Teams like UConn, Rutgers, and Louisville will be next. I'd be interested to see what happens with the Big East basketball powers that do not have prestigious football programs like St. John's (in due time!), Georgetown, and Villanova.
I wonder if WVU could get into the Big 10. I hate how the conferences are going to be less based on geography pretty soon. Texas Christian in the Big East? Utah in the Pacific conference? Pittsburgh in the Atlantic Coast? The Big 10 especially has to change their name. It is thoroughly ridiculous that there are more than 10 teams in a conference called the Big 10.
Yeah, but I don't want WVU or Louisville to go to the ACC anyway. Neither school is in the deep south, but West Virginia and Kentucky are considered southern states, so they could fit in the SEC in that sense. I think I might prefer WVU in the Big Ten. There would be a good rivalries with Penn State and Ohio State.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ies-aggressively-seeking-acc-move-source-says UConn wants into the ACC quickly.
If Texas, TT, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State join the Pac-12 like the rumor that's out there, then the SEC is going to be looking for teams. I could see Florida State, Clemson and Va Tech leaving the ACC to make 16 teams in the SEC. Then you could see UConn, Rutgers, Villanova, Louisville and West Virginia joining the ACC. You split the ACC up into north and south and have what would be similar to the Big East of a few years ago vs the ACC: North: BC Villanova Uconn Pitt Syracuse Rutgers Louisville West Virgina South: Duke UNC Maryland Virginia Miami NC St Georgia Tech Wake Forest SEC West Alabama Miss. St Ole Miss Arkansas Auburn LSU A&M Clemson East Florida Kentucky Vanderbilt Georgia Tennesee South Carolina Va. Tech Florida St. Pac-16 North Stanford California Oregon Washington Washington St. Oregon St. Colorado Utah South USC Arizona State Arizona UCLA Texas Texas Tech Oklahoma Oklahoma St. Big 16 Legends Michigan Nebraska Iowa Michigan St Northwestern Minnesota Iowa St Mizzou Leaders Illinois Wisconsin Ohio St Penn St. Purdue Indiana Kansas Kansas St
NVM. Misread that. So where does Notre Dame go if the Big East winds up dying? Their football team is independent but every other sport is tied up in the Big East. Are there any other conferences that will let them in without asking for a share of that NBC money?
Nobody's leaving the ACC and the ACC will never ever take a school such as WVU in nor a non-football team.
Well the scenario at least told to me by a Kansas fan is dire for them, with by all accounts Texas, Tech, Oklahoma and Boone Pickens U off to form the Pac 16 they firmly believe in Lawrence that the SEC will offcially kill the Big East and the Big 12 with one swoop. First they say that Rutgers and Uconn are both going to the ACC which gives them 16. The SEC finishes the deal by inviting aTm, Missouri, Louisville and WVU. What has the Kansas fans shitting themselves is that apparently no Big 10 offer is coming so they're royally fucked. That leaves Kansas, Kstate, Baylor, Iowa State, USF, Cincinnati and TCU up the creek although the good news for TCU is that they haven't officially left the MWC so they may just stay put even if those remaining 6 merge they will not have a BCS bid because the rules state that a conference must have 5 teams that have played together for x amount of years in order to receive a bid which clearly they don't meet that requirement. The Big 10 is in no hurry to expand unless they can get Notre Dame which has a chance as ND has nowhere else to put their other sports.
