Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Frankenconference has been referenced as 'football only' AFAIK...

 

[Muck]

I guess I don't see what Boise thinks they're getting out of this deal.

The respect they think they deserve. lol

 

[zincfinger]

I guess I don't see what Boise thinks they're getting out of this deal.

I would guess they probably are thinking that i) they obviously weren't going to win a national championship playing in the MWC, or whatever conference they were in before, anyway, ii) it won't be all that much more difficult to win the New Big East than it was to win whatever-conference-they-were-in-before, iii) the overall CFB landscape's likely to change dramatically in the next few years anyway, and getting yourself labeled "a BCS school" beforehand might help as preparation for the forthcoming tectonic shift, and iv) Our synthetic grass is blue!

 

[Mike80]

How about the WTF is wrong with you Scooter? conference....

 

[sandgk]

Official announcment made - ABC News:

The Big East introduced Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, SMU and Central Florida as its new members, effective 2013.
Commissioner John Marinatto says the Big East is the "first truly national college football conference."
The Big East, depleted by the planned departures of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, is trying to rebuild as a 12-team football conference with a western division.

For those eager to learn if the sports press will ask them about any name change: (from Big East website).

 

[jlb1705]

My proposal for their new conference name: Manifest Residue

 

[Nicknam4]

The Big Whatever was thrown around on Reddit.

 

[buchtelgrad04]

The "Big Desperate For Attention" Conference

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Navy says, "thanks....but no thanks."

Maybe it's just me, but I see the Big East's courtship of Navy, AF and Army to be a highly calculated and cynical move to hold onto their AQ status--i.e. fold the service academies into the Frankenconference and then dare the BCS to strip them of AQ status and face the resulting public and congressional outcry that the Frankenconference office will be certain to stoke.

 

[jlb1705]

Here's some news everyone has beed dying to hear...

Northern Kentucky University to the Atlantic Sun Conference

:tongue2:

Was kinda hoping they'd end up in the Horizon League though.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Potatards in an uproar over "cowbell policy."

Apparently part of their vaunted home field advantage is based on thousands of potatards clanging cowbells every time the opposing team is on offense. Big East has a no noisemaker policy. Potatards angry.

No!!!!!

Ima bring my cowbell to every game once we join the Big East.

 

[Diego-Bucks]

Potatards in an uproar over "cowbell policy."

Apparently part of their vaunted home field advantage is based on thousands of potatards clanging cowbells every time the opposing team is on offense. Big East has a no noisemaker policy. Potatards angry.

 

[CincyInterloper]

If they can't win the Big East there's no way they will be getting a BCS bid..when's the last time the Big East champ has finished in the top 14?

Cincinnati was ranked #3 in the BCS poll at the end of 2009. The next Big East team ranked was West Virginia at 16 followed by Pittsburgh at 17.

The Big East had to either add teams or cease to exist as a football conference. The only teams the Big East can get are going to be from non-AQ conferences, so they took the best teams available without regard to location. Personally, I'd like the Big East be more of a regional conference. Maybe they should have added ECU, Temple, or Marshall instead of Boise State and SDSU. In any case, the BCS system is probably going to go away except for 1 verses 2, at which point there won't be such a thing as an AQ conference.

 

[CincyInterloper]

The other thing to consider is that with the two biggest "BCS busters" TCU and Boise both in AQ conferences now, it opens up the BCS bowls to take an additional at large team from a traditional conference. This is arguably a good thing.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

The other thing to consider is that with the two biggest "BCS busters" TCU and Boise both in AQ conferences now, it opens up the BCS bowls to take an additional at large team from a traditional conference. This is arguably a good thing.

Nope... now there will just be someone else to step into the whiner role.

"Why don't we get a bid? We've got two losses, and a quality win over Northern Utah Normal School... and you know the Fighting NUNS play for keeps"