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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Whatever they decide will say a lot about where the conference is headed. The basketball schools forced the old commissioner out, so another basketball school in the northeast (Villanova moving to FBS football) would show that the basketball schools are firmly in control.

    The new commissioner is a former CBS exec who was in charge of negotiating TV contracts, so a major market team would seem to be an attempt to increase their TV deal. BYU would also make sense here because of their TV network and fanbase.

    Since the article quoted the new commish saying that the Big East does not plan to raid anyone, Tulane and Rice seem to be out of the running. Anyone outside of the northeast would not do anything to reduce their crazy footprint, but BYU is in Utah, so who knows what will happen.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by LT View Post
    Tulane has expressed interest in the BE before, and they have an endowment of more than $1 billion. Lots of people all over the country find N.O attractive too.

    I certainly don't have any inside information, though.
    In spite of those pesky hurricanes. I don't get it.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    BYU already turned down the Big East last year.

    My guess is that it will be Fresno State.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    It could be anybody. Saying there are independants left only means that they can pick a school that is in another conference and THAT conference can pick up an indepenant. There is NO footprint for the Big East, so geography doesn't matter. BYU seems logical, but the Big East has not used logic before.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    One would think the BE would TRY to land another eastern school, and build a solid coalition of eastern schools. Say, at least 9 all-sports schools. Eventually, Boazy and the other western schools will leave for more geographically sensible leagues. The BE needs to look east for a 14th member.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    One would think the BE would TRY to land another eastern school, and build a solid coalition of eastern schools. Say, at least 9 all-sports schools. Eventually, Boazy and the other western schools will leave for more geographically sensible leagues. The BE needs to look east for a 14th member.
    Yes, one would "think"..... They haven't seemed to care during the last 2 years, though, about where a team is located.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Big 12 not through expanding. Certainly could effect BE membership, ie, Louisville. BE could need more than one additional member.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by counselingdawg View Post
    Big 12 not through expanding. Certainly could effect BE membership, ie, Louisville. BE could need more than one additional member.
    I think Tulane stands a great chance of being #14. Would CUSA then give ULL a look?

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by brtransplant View Post
    I think Tulane stands a great chance of being #14. Would CUSA then give ULL a look?
    Not a chance on either count.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    The Big East is looking for a football-only member. Nobody from C-USA except for maybe East Carolina would accept a FBO invite. They are likely looking at an independent like Army or a MW program like Fresno State that could put their non-football sports in the Big West.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by brtransplant View Post
    I think Tulane stands a great chance of being #14. Would CUSA then give ULL a look?
    You can't be serious.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS View Post
    You can't be serious.
    I am. Tulane has the academics to go along with a $billion endowment that the BE would look very favorably on. New Orleans is also a feather in Tulane's cap. At some point, you have to ask yourself "who else is out there". The pool of possible replacement schools is getting smaller and smaller, and if CUSA ever loses another member, the Sunbelt is one place we'll look for a possible replacement. As long as Tulane and Tech are both still in CUSA, ULL doesn't have a chance of ever getting in. If Tulane wasn't around, I think ULL would have as good a shot as MTSU and FAU, both of whom are often mentioned as possible replacement members. I'd hate to see Tulane leave, and they probably aren't going anywhere, but until realignment is finished, anything is possible.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by brtransplant View Post
    I am. Tulane has the academics to go along with a $billion endowment that the BE would look very favorably on. New Orleans is also a feather in Tulane's cap. At some point, you have to ask yourself "who else is out there". The pool of possible replacement schools is getting smaller and smaller, and if CUSA ever loses another member, the Sunbelt is one place we'll look for a possible replacement. As long as Tulane and Tech are both still in CUSA, ULL doesn't have a chance of ever getting in. If Tulane wasn't around, I think ULL would have as good a shot as MTSU and FAU, both of whom are often mentioned as possible replacement members. I'd hate to see Tulane leave, and they probably aren't going anywhere, but until realignment is finished, anything is possible.
    Reallignment will never be over. Time to start realizing that. I hope Tech is doing now what it needs to be prepared for the next move already. If not, we will find ourselves full of anxiety again.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by champion110 View Post
    Reallignment will never be over. Time to start realizing that. I hope Tech is doing now what it needs to be prepared for the next move already. If not, we will find ourselves full of anxiety again.
    I hope and pray we don't. I can't go through that ordeal again. More adjustments may come, but I can't see CUSA totally disintegrating like the WAC did.

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    Re: BE looking for 14th football team

    Quote Originally Posted by brtransplant View Post
    I hope and pray we don't. I can't go through that ordeal again. More adjustments may come, but I can't see CUSA totally disintegrating like the WAC did.
    If Southern Miss, Tulane, Rice, and maybe one more leave, it will not be worth it anymore. In this day and time, you have to be ready. We can't rest until we are in the highest of catagories of conferences. CUSA is a good regional conference, but not the end all. We need to use it to build - just like we did the WAC.

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