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Good old Memorial Gym
Tech is a great brand without the scandal of other places. Its a natural for the Big East. Not sure it would ever happen, but I'm not surprised. We were conf champions last year, maybe this year too. Although it should have happened long ago we also just jumped in academic rankings to Tier 1. I'm not surprised the BE is looking.
I was hoping we might stay in CUSA for awhile and add ULL and Ark. St.
Originally Posted by Dirtydawg
Weren't we all Dirtydawg, weren't we all. It looks like now we will have to leave the C-USA behind for the Big East, and we will be leaving the Big East shortly to take Penn State's place in the Big 10. Our rivalries in the Big East were just starting to develop too. I think we will just work on adding ULM to the Big 10 so that we can have a good rivalry game!
Over my dead body - at least!
Yes....and I was hoping we could add NSU, McNeese St and Nichols St too. That would be great.
HD
DD not to pile on but your kidding right ?
Has to be "tongue in cheek" surly.
There used to be some Tech fans on here that thought we should join the Sunbelt so we could play ULL and ASU. But, DD wasn't one of those. I think he may be taking a shot at them.
NO to NSU of course, but HECK YES to the old State Fair "Rally in The Alley" wet tshirt contests at The Sports Page bar!Yes....and I was hoping we could add NSU, McNeese St and Nichols St too. That would be great.
HD
Aaahhh yes...the good ole days. Too bad we didn't have cell phone cameras back then.NO to NSU of course, but HECK YES to the old State Fair "Rally in The Alley" wet tshirt contests at The Sports Page bar!
HD
Thank you, Don. I guess I've been away from posting too long. It was, indeed, meant as a joke. Despite my family ties to ULL, I have no desire to be associated with them whatsoever.
That being said, I know this is just a rumor out of nowhere, but I would be reticent about joining the Big East because I really don't know how volatile it is, or how viable it would be if the basketball schools left. Would the remaining football schools be a remarkable step up from where we are now considering travel, etc... I suspect those that are being mentioned as possibly leaving will try to expedite that process if the conference does split. The last I read, the Big East hadn't secured any serious new bowl contracts. I suspect these bowls are waiting to see what happens with the conference, and who will be around. I'm not sure this isn't a case of falling for the beauty queen without looking at her mother first.
As we have discussed at some length, new NCAA rules have made it prohibitively, if not insurmountably, difficult to establish a new Division1 conference. So the BE basketball schools will not "breaking off" anywhere.
Rather, they will simply block the addition of any new football-playing all-sports members. So when the next round of raiding occurs by the ACC, Big12, etc ... the BE will simply stop backfilling with football teams. Once the BCS-AQ system is gone, they will have no further incentive to stay in the football business. They will let their football numbers dwindle until the remaining teams have no choice but to withdraw from the conference.
UConn & Rutgers are prospects for both the ACC & the B1G.
Louisville & Cincy are prospects for the Big12 & ACC.
If those 4 bolt, that only leaves 6 allsports members that play fooseball and 3 FBOs. (And how long do you think Boise & SDSU will stick around once the AQ checks stop?)
By the end of this decade, BE football will consist of Houston, SMU, UCF, USF, Memphis, Temple & Navy. That's not enough.
So unless some Indy (Army, BYU or ND) saves the day by agreeing to play BE FBO, the remaining 7 (above) will have to go crawling back where they came from.
The Catholic institutions that control the BE are done with the football experiment, and they will let it die on the vine.
Only a couple bowls have contracts that go past the 2013 season. All of the bowl contracts are about to be renegotiated. The Big East is no different from any other conference in that respect. C-USA certainly does not have any bowl tie-ins past the 2013 season.
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