NCAA Conference Realignment

[bcl412]

Big East expansion to be announced as soon as tomorrow.

 

http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/33728643

 

In sumarry:

 

Boise St and San Diego State to be invited for football only.

 

Houston, Central Florida, and SMU to be invited for all sports.

 

All by 2013. After that, the plan is Navy and Air Force a year later to make 12.

 

They shouldn't get to be a part of the BCS anymore.

[ZMovieman]

Big East expansion to be announced as soon as tomorrow.

 

http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/33728643

 

In sumarry:

 

Boise St and San Diego State to be invited for football only.

 

Houston, Central Florida, and SMU to be invited for all sports.

 

All by 2013. After that, the plan is Navy and Air Force a year later to make 12.

 

They shouldn't get to be a part of the BCS anymore.

 

I'm a Big East basketball guy, so I'm mixed on all of this. That said, based on how they've played of late, that football conference with Boise St and Houston might be better than Cuse, Pitt, and West Virginia. Long term no, but recently at least.

[CubColtPacer]

Big East expansion to be announced as soon as tomorrow.

 

http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/33728643

 

In sumarry:

 

Boise St and San Diego State to be invited for football only.

 

Houston, Central Florida, and SMU to be invited for all sports.

 

All by 2013. After that, the plan is Navy and Air Force a year later to make 12.

 

They shouldn't get to be a part of the BCS anymore.

 

I would agree, but only because the Big East shouldn't have been in the last several years. This new conference is as strong (or maybe stronger) as the Big East has been since Miami, Va Tech, and BC left. It isn't that much weaker than the ACC either, but the conference has been consistently bad for long enough that it shouldn't be getting automatic bids.

[Northside Blues]

In the new and improved Big East, only Rutgers was a BCS conference team prior to 2005. Four out of the 10 teams were not even FBS/I-A teams when the BCS was created (UConn, Boise, USF, UCF). Six of the 10 teams were members of Conference USA at some point.

[Northside Blues]

Big East expansion to be announced as soon as tomorrow.

 

http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/33728643

 

In sumarry:

 

Boise St and San Diego State to be invited for football only.

 

Houston, Central Florida, and SMU to be invited for all sports.

 

All by 2013. After that, the plan is Navy and Air Force a year later to make 12.

 

They shouldn't get to be a part of the BCS anymore.

 

I would agree, but only because the Big East shouldn't have been in the last several years. This new conference is as strong (or maybe stronger) as the Big East has been since Miami, Va Tech, and BC left. It isn't that much weaker than the ACC either, but the conference has been consistently bad for long enough that it shouldn't be getting automatic bids.

The ACC at least has teams with outstanding football traditions. Florida State and Miami will certainly bounceback at some point and the ACC will be able to get to the level of the Big Ten, Pac 12 and SEC, much like it was prior to 2005. The ACC has just been down for awhile but the Big East has no chance of becoming in the class of the Big Ten. Not really arguing with you or anything, just pointing that out. The Big East should be stripped of its BCS credentials and the ACC should not.

[jersey cubs fan]

The ACC at least has teams with outstanding football traditions. Florida State and Miami will certainly bounceback at some point and the ACC will be able to get to the level of the Big Ten, Pac 12 and SEC, much like it was prior to 2005. The ACC has just been down for awhile but the Big East has no chance of becoming in the class of the Big Ten. Not really arguing with you or anything, just pointing that out. The Big East should be stripped of its BCS credentials and the ACC should not.

 

That's a fairly loose definition of tradition. FSU didn't have much of any history until the late 80's. Obviously they had a tremendous run, but I wouldn't exactly call it a traditional powerhouse destined to contend. Miami has a similar timeline, although it goes back a few years earlier. Their talent base for recruitment should allow them to contend with regularity, but lots of people caught up to their style and compete for the same talent, and their futures are hardly guaranteed.

[UMFan83]

New Big East football conference:

 

 

Boise State

Central Florida

Cincinnati

Cnnnecticut

Houston

Louisville

Rutgers

San Diego State

South Florida

Southern Methodist

 

Man that looks like a crappier Conference USA like conference. Can you believe one of those 10 schools is going to play in a BCS game every year. Yeah Boise State but if they slip, wow. Rutgers is the only school that was playing football in the Big East as recently as 2004. And in the last 20 years (since 1991) the Big East has completely turned over.

 

Basketball:

 

Central Florida

Cincinnati

Connecticut

DePaul

Georgetown

Houston

Louisville

Marquette

Notre Dame

Providence

Rutgers

South Florida

Southern Methodist

St. John's

Seton Hall

Villanova

 

Definitely better than football with traditional powers UConn, Cincinnati, Marquette, Louisville, Notre Dame, Villanova still there. But there are now a lack of championship contenders (besides uconn and an occasional run from those other guys) and the bottom of the conference sucks badly. Would probably have to put them on par with the Big Ten. The top is slightly better than BIG's but the bottom is worse.

[SouthSideRyan]

The bottom is much worse. The Big Ten might be better than the Big East this year without swapping out 3 good programs for 3 pathetic ones.

[Andy]

The BCS isn't going to have an AQ system after 2013, so that crappy Big East will only get a BCS bid once.

[bukie]

The bottom is much worse. The Big Ten might be better than the Big East this year without swapping out 3 good programs for 3 pathetic ones.

The Big Ten definitely is better than the Big East in basketball this year, by a large margin.

 

The Big 12 might be better than the Big East this year.

[snoodmonger]

The bottom is much worse. The Big Ten might be better than the Big East this year without swapping out 3 good programs for 3 pathetic ones.

The Big Ten definitely is better than the Big East in basketball this year, by a large margin.

 

The Big 12 might be better than the Big East this year.

 

in basketball? i think this is a pretty bad year for hoops in the big 12.

[bukie]

The bottom is much worse. The Big Ten might be better than the Big East this year without swapping out 3 good programs for 3 pathetic ones.

The Big Ten definitely is better than the Big East in basketball this year, by a large margin.

 

The Big 12 might be better than the Big East this year.

 

in basketball? i think this is a pretty bad year for hoops in the big 12.

30% of the league could be in the top 10 this upcoming week, and really only Texas Tech is going to be noncompetitive in conference play. 8 of 10 teams have legitimate shots at an NCAA berth (Iowa State might land an NIT berth?).

[Butterscup1679666578]

Mizzou's a good team, but they aren't a top-10 team.

 

Baylor's probably the only team that deserves to be in the top-10 in the league right now.

[javy knows my name]

Really, really ok with the Big East being a little down this year. Marquette has its easiest schedule since the CUSA days.

[bukie]

San Diego State shifting 14 sports to Big West

 

Granted, the football team will be in the Big East, but...this is going to really kill their basketball program.

[SouthSideRyan]

San Diego State shifting 14 sports to Big West

 

Granted, the football team will be in the Big East, but...this is going to really kill their basketball program.

 

They're required to go to a non-FBS conference. They'd seem to make a lot more sense in the WCC for basketball considering BYU and Gonzaga are there(along with a couple other programs who rise and fall), but I don't know how things work with their other sports.

[chuckywang]

San Diego State shifting 14 sports to Big West

 

Granted, the football team will be in the Big East, but...this is going to really kill their basketball program.

 

They're required to go to a non-FBS conference. They'd seem to make a lot more sense in the WCC for basketball considering BYU and Gonzaga are there(along with a couple other programs who rise and fall), but I don't know how things work with their other sports.

 

Why is that a requirement, and what is the rationale for it?

[SouthSideRyan]

San Diego State shifting 14 sports to Big West

 

Granted, the football team will be in the Big East, but...this is going to really kill their basketball program.

 

They're required to go to a non-FBS conference. They'd seem to make a lot more sense in the WCC for basketball considering BYU and Gonzaga are there(along with a couple other programs who rise and fall), but I don't know how things work with their other sports.

 

Why is that a requirement, and what is the rationale for it?

 

Because the NCAA says so.

[jersey cubs fan]

The Big Ten will maintain the Legends and Leaders divisional names after hiring a reserach firm that revealed two-thirds of people surveyed liked the names that had come under heavy public criticism through media and social networking.

 

The Big Ten plans to "work harder to help fans understand why the names were chosen" and "understand who is in which division.."

 

The research was conducted by Brand Explorers out of Houston. Of those surveyed, 72 percent had attended or were currently enrolled in a Big Ten university and 90 percent said they watched four or more conference games on television the previous year.

[SouthSideRyan]

And 66% of them were idiots.

[SpongeWorthy]

And 66% of them were idiots.

 

well that doesn't make much sense in light of how far big 10 alums are up their own asses about the academics

[Guest]

The Big Ten plans to "work harder to help fans understand why the names were chosen" and "understand who is in which division.."

 

Tremendous.

[SouthSideRyan]

And 66% of them were idiots.

 

well that doesn't make much sense in light of how far big 10 alums are up their own asses about the academics

 

Perhaps you haven't heard GR's treatise on the value of a Big 10 education.

[treebird]

And 66% of them were idiots.

 

well that doesn't make much sense in light of how far big 10 alums are up their own asses about the academics

 

Perhaps you haven't heard GR's treatise on the value of a Big 10 education.

 

heard? is he doing a lecture circuit? i've only read his article in the journal of higher education

[Tracer Bullet]

Oh come on.