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Big East to possibly expand
TCU apparently has accepted a bid into the Big East.
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5862368&campaign=rss&source=NCBHeadlines
Per DH's contacts in the Big East, Houston or Central Florida would be invited to join, making it an even 18 programs and 10 football programs, unless Villanova moves up to D-IA for football (they currently play D-IAA versus D-IAA. The difference between the two is scholarships). However, he's also been told that Nova does quite well at the D-IAA level and they don't want to move up to D-IA.
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Re: Big East to possibly expand
Ditto that. The Big East is already set up with travel partners, so I'm not exactly sure how that's going to be set up (for example, Marquette partners with DePaul because the cities are 2 hours apart and Louisville and Cincinnati are geographically close).
This is good from a football perspective. Given that WVU is the only current Big East team that is ranked (and they're barely in at #24), we need some legit football teams to avoid losing our automatic BCS berth. TCU is not the addition I was expecting due to geography (how is a school in Ft. Worth joining a conference with "east" in its name?), but I think it's good for football.
On the other hand, Big East basketball is already an unwieldy 16-headed monster. I wonder if they could split into two conferences for basketball? 18 teams just seems ridiculous. But then again, it's not like there's any shortage of NCAA berths for Big East teams, so maybe it's not a problem.
I don't like it because it makes no sense geographically - kind of like when Boston College joined the ACC.
It might be good for football, but it's going to hurt a solid and already too big basketball conference.