Big East, Boom Outta Here?

[pk500]

Looks like TCU is off to the Big 12 before even playing a game in the Big East. Wonder who the next to jump ship will be.

Rick

Hard to blame TCU. It didn't bank on joining Conference USA or the MAAC when first agreeing to move to the Big East.

The Big East now is left with six football schools. No way the automatic BCS bid can continue to be awarded to its existing lineup.

[Murph]

The next move will be the SEC's. Who will be #14 or will they sit on 13 for a while?

Missouri seems to be a big topic of conversation. Will they stay or go to the SEC? If they really had their way, they'd join the B1G.

The BEast can't really replenish the coffers at this point because will there even be a football conference to invite schools to if more current members bail?

[fsquid]

As long as the Big East has 6 existing members, then they can keep the bid is my understanding.

[fsquid]

WVU to the Big 12, down to five members now.

[icvu42]

WVU to the Big 12, down to five members now.

As a Syracuse fan, it is sad to see the Big East crumble like this. However, the league did it to themselves. Wonder now where the rest of the football schools will go.

I was hoping WVU and UConn would go to the ACC. That way you could have had a division of old Big East squads and kept some of these rivalries going.

Rick

[Murph]

WVU to the Big 12, down to five members now.

As a Syracuse fan, it is sad to see the Big East crumble like this. However, the league did it to themselves. Wonder now where the rest of the football schools will go.

I was hoping WVU and UConn would go to the ACC. That way you could have had a division of old Big East squads and kept some of these rivalries going.

Rick

This is what happens when you have so many differing agendas: Carholic basketball schools, football schools, Notre Dame, etc. This house of cards was destined to collapse, sadly.

Perhaps down the road, if the ACC decides to go to 16, UConn and Rutgers will get invites or in a fantasy scenario, ND says yes to the ACC and UConn rides those coattails in as well.

There's also an extremely small chance the SEC could poach an ACC school, creating an opening.