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Big East leaders will meet tomorrow to discuss expansion plans
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:05 pm
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:05 pm
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In what several sources around the Big East described as a pivotal meeting, Big East presidents and athletic directors will meet tomorrow in Philadelphia to discuss probable expansion plans, The Post has learned.
The regularly-scheduled meeting of the presidents and athletic directors figures to be intense as the BCS-football playing members of the league intend on pressing their agenda to add teams to the eight-team football conference.
"The goal is to get the presidents' blessing to seriously pursue teams," said one Big East athletic director. "I don't think we're going to get pushback on that."
Several sources confirmed a Post report last month that TCU is a strong candidate. Houston, Central Florida, Temple and/or Villanova, which is in the midst of evaluating a move up from FCS, are other lead candidates.
Two sources said if the presidents give their blessing to explore expansion, invitations could be issued before the end of the college football season. TCU is said to be very interested, as is Central Florida.
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Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:07 pm to Bench McElroy
Conference Expansion board?
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:12 pm to baytiger
Is USF going to allow Central Florida to move up?
And a 20-team conference in most sports is going to be a mess.
And a 20-team conference in most sports is going to be a mess.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:13 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Is USF going to allow Central Florida to move up?
i sure hope so
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:16 pm to Bench McElroy
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TCU is a strong candidate.
How would this work with travel?
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:17 pm to baytiger
it's really funny that they'd consider FCS teams moving up straight into a BCS conference while Boise stays out there in the cold 
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:18 pm to TN Bhoy
Why not Army and Navy...oh and the golden question...why not just give Notre Dame a fricking ultimatum already? Either join the conference full time or get out!
This post was edited on 11/1/10 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:18 pm to TN Bhoy
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How would this work with travel?
Especially for non revenue sports. Yikes.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:19 pm to baytiger
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it's really funny that they'd consider FCS teams moving up straight into a BCS conference while Boise stays out there in the cold
very true and all they do is bitch and moan, they need to worry about selling out their HS stadium before playing in a BCS league
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:20 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Leavitt was so insecure about his team that he was the one really leading the 'keep UCF out' charge. Holtz has stated he is interested in playing UCF again so he probably isn't as anti-UCF as Leavitt was. I never understood why the rest of the Big East teams went along with Leavitt, adding UCF would increase the conference's recruiting prescense in Florida and add a huge media market in Orlando. Seems like a no-brainer.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:22 pm to TN Bhoy
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How would this work with travel?
Conference USA has teams in Ohio, Florida, and west Texas. It's not ideal, especially for the non-revenue sports, but it's feasable and adding a team like TCU would be worth it. I also think it's funny that TCU and UCF would probably be the two best teams in the Big East this year.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 7:25 pm to floridatigah
Any chance they land the Buffalo Bills?
Posted on 11/1/10 at 8:29 pm to Bench McElroy
Not sure raiding the MAC and C-USA is a good recipe for making your conference stronger. That's how they got into this mess to begin with.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 8:38 pm to RockChalkTiger
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That's how they got into this mess to begin with.
no not at all the teams added after the ACC raid of the BE have done just fine and even one won a BCS bowl vs the ACC
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:05 pm to TN Bhoy
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How would this work with travel?
TCU's budget would go from about 50 Million to about 75 Million. Travel would go up from about 1 Million to 1.5 Million.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:11 pm to floridatigah
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Conference USA has teams in Ohio
Pretty sure Marshall is the northernmost CUSA team in Huntington, WV.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:25 pm to Buckeye Backer
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Why not Army and Navy...oh and the golden question...why not just give Notre Dame a fricking ultimatum already? Either join the conference full time or get out!
Because ND has the Big East by the balls. Big East does that, the Irish say "fine, see ya". Big East is screwed.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:27 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
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Because ND has the Big East by the balls. Big East does that, the Irish say "fine, see ya". Big East is screwed.
BE should tell ND all in or GTFO and just give all the bball only playing catholic schools the boot while they are at it
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:28 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
quote:How are they screwed? Does Notre Dame bring anything special to any sport in the Big East?
Because ND has the Big East by the balls. Big East does that, the Irish say "fine, see ya". Big East is screwed.
Posted on 11/1/10 at 9:29 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
Lol, screwed in what? Basketball? ND doesn't have as much big east pull as you think imo
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