Conference Realignment: TCU To Join The Big 12
by Chris Lane on Oct 6, 2011 12:13 PM EDT
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Well, this isn't the final killshot to the Big East, but we're getting close as TCU has received a formal invitation from the Big 12 conference and plans to accept the invitation, ditching the Big East before they've ever played a competitive game.
TCU will have to pay the Big East's $5 million exit fee, but will not have to wait 27 months like Syracuse and Pitt, instead joining the Big 12 for the 2012-2013 athletics season.
The move leaves the Big East with just 6 football-playing schools (Louisville, West Virginia, Cincinnati, South Florida, UConn, Rutgers) along with the 8 basketball-only schools. Initial reports indicate that the Big 12 may be happy with 10 teams (assuming Missouri stays), although I'm sure West Virginia and Louisville would jump at the chance to leave the Big East as well. BYU will be in play as a possible member for the Big 12 with the aforementioned Big East schools.
If Louisville and West Virginia were to leave for greener pastures, that'd be the end of the Big East conference. Catholic League, here we come!
Let's talk doomsday people.
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And so it begins
Well, just have to see when the next shoe drops. ACC and Big XII will ultimately decide the fate of the Big East. Guarantee that UConn is begging and pleading with the ACC. What was the point of the meeting on Sunday? Did TCU president need the FF miles or just want to visit DC? I think that Big East would be on the cusp of losing the AQ depending on how the next couple of days shake out. Amazing the difference a year makes.
ND is the key
Though, they are in no need to go ANYWHERE.
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This is the end...
"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship.
These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
"You don't want to analyze it...you want to admire it!" - Play by play guy on O.J. McDuffie TD catch against Ga. Tech.
Pulse is weak...
Somebody execute the DNR
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Big East is done...
So is our FCS football chances. Even if we move up into whatever remains of the Big East, they won’t have AQ status so what the point? We better give Jay a huge extension otherwise our Basketball is done in a few years.
Even if the Big East isn't AQ
You upgrade the program to FBS, if/when the ACC comes calling again, Nova would figure to be one of the choices if they’re successful enough.
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Problem is...
We can’t just ‘upgrade’ to FBS without a conference accepting us. We can’t upgrade and go independent. It’s an NCAA rule (and a stupid one at that)
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Big East is surely done if WVU goes
The BE might be able to afford this loss of TCU, but the one team they can’t afford to go is WVU more than anyone else. If WVU goes, the pulse is completely dead, BE ceases as a football conference really, ND will join a conference (probably ACC) and hello Catholic league to the Novas and G-Towns of the world. As a Rutgers commentary recently said, there would be no reason for the BE to raid C-USA anymore, it would be C-USA.
As I recently said, even if the Catholic league thing happens, I do think Nova and G-Town would be OK in basketball because of their tradition, but I don’t know if it can last 20, 30 years down the road once they start having losing seasons.
Agree
WVU or L’Ville leaving is the killshot
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Catholic League
Maybe it is just resignation at this point, but I feel oddly at peace about all of this (if it goes Catholic League). I’m new faculty here at VU, and was gung-ho about going BE/FBS for football, but after buying season tickets, and watching us lose (and not just lose but seemingly get out-drawn in our own stadium) to foes like William and Mary, I started to rethink the whole thing. Maybe I’m just used to the “big boy” Big-10 scene, but I kept thinking—there in a silent, half-full, generously – 10,000 seat stadium—that “there’s no way” this’d be big league football. “There’s no effin’ way.” Which is oddly reassuring, as we all are being smacked in the face with how horribly dysfunctional college football actually is.
C’mon… somebody give me a pep talk…
by Claude Savagely on Oct 7, 2011 12:18 AM EDT reply actions
You're faculty?
And you were pro-FBS? That’s crazy talk! :)
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I've always maintained...
It’s tough to get crowds for games that nobody cares about (FCS). And even harder when it’s a young team getting crushed.
The crowds will be there for FBS games. I’d drive down to Philly for a Villanova-BigEastMember game. I’m not driving down for Villanova vs. William & Mary – unless it’s the playoffs.
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