Saturday, July 23, 2011

Expansion?

When the Big East football coaches and administrators meet on August 2nd, I wonder if they are going to discuss expansion. Maybe they should. In 2011 the Big East has 8 participants in football:UConn, Rutgers,Pitt, Cincinnati, Louisville,Syracuse, WVU, South Florida, and TCU coming in 2012 which makes it 9 members. I feel the Big East should expand to a 12 team league in football. Villanova is close to entering the league pending on a vote from the members. If the VU Wildcats come in that makes it 10 members. Where would 11 and 12 come from? I would like to see the Navy become a member and possibly have Central Florida and/or Memphis become the 12th team. If you have 12 members , the league can be split into 2 conferences, the Big East North(UConn,Pitt,Rutgers,Villanova,Syracuse,Navy) and the Big East South(WVU,USF,Louisville,Cincinnati,TCU,Memphis or Central Florida). There are also rumors floating out there that either Army or Air Force may want to join the Big East Football League. This would be a very interesting football conference if any of this happened. Adding TCU was a great move for the Big East. Villanova needs to move from 1AA to 1A and bringing Navy or another academy school in would be VERY interesting.

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