Pretty happy to have made it an entire college football weekend without any conference realignment fuss. Tactfully done, athletic directors and other leakers of information!
The news of the moment: Big East presidents met Sunday and granted commissioner John Marinatto the power to expand the conference. Andy Katz has a list of the schools being discussed, which includes three new additions:
The source said a number of schools were discussed, including Navy, Army, Air Force, Temple, Central Florida and a new name in SMU.
The Temple Owls are expected to join in all sports, while the service academies are likely to join in football only. The Navy Midshipmen and Air Force Falcons have been mentioned repeatedly, while the Army Black Knights are a new addition. If Navy must give up over a century of independence, doing so in order to join a conference with both of its fellow Commander-in-Chief's Trophy schools would be the only move worth the sacrifice.
The SMU Mustangs would give the TCU Horned Frogs a local rival, while the Central Florida Knights would do the same for the South Florida Bulls. Kind of a weird conference identity if all six of those are added, which would give the conference 12 teams and the chance to play a title game. Assuming they don't lose anybody else to the ACC or Big 12, of course.
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No to Big East adding C-USA teams
Navy and Air Force for football-only and Temple for all sports is good. Adding Conference USA teams will serve to weaken the Big East football and risk losing its Automatic Qualifier. SMU serves the same market as TCU IDallas/Fort Worth), and shouldn’t be added same for Central Florida, it adds the same region as South Florida (Central Florida). If they plan on adding a 4th football team it should be UMass Amherst, who is joining FBS football next year in Temple’s same football conference the Mid-American Conference. UMass would replace the lost BC in Massachusetts (not quite the same, but much better than adding SMU, Houston or UCF as they have a storied basketball past also).
by Timothy Brian Padden on Oct 3, 2011 10:58 PM EDT reply actions
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