BE expansion

[kellycpcm]

The article in today's ESPN news says the BE wants to expand.

They would like to have Penn State for football

"http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigeast"

"For what it's worth, Big East commissioner John Marinatto told me that expansion wasn't brought up this week at the league meetings. He said the conference would of course like to have a ninth football member to help scheduling, but no available school out there provided a fit. He did say, by way of an example, that if Penn State suddenly decided it wanted to stay in an Eastern-based conference, that the Big East would jump all over the opportunity."

And dump DePaul and Seton Hall "

The Big East still has the problem of having too many basketball members -- already at 16. If a team like Maryland or BC became available, though, I would take that chance in a heartbeat and tell DePaul and/or Seton Hall to take a hike.

[skyhoya]

Although, I'd like to see it, it will never happen with JoePA. Penn State's revenue is $50 million more for athletics than any current BE school. Thre bowl affliations are also on the bottom for revenue. I would also like to see DePaul and the Hall go away and join some Mid-Major leagues.

[DFW HOYA]

Penn State's revenue is $91 million, $53M from football, $7M from basketball and the rest unallocated.

Georgetown's revenue is $28 million, $0.5M from football, $9M from basketball and the rest unallocated.

blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college/2009/07/how-much-revenue-did-your-favorite-fbs-school-take-in-in-200708-this-chart-will-tell-you.html

But ask not for whom the bell tolls when it comes to pruning the Big East. If Maryland accepted a bid contingent on having the DC market all to its own, how many football schools would be showing Georgetown the door?

[theexorcist]

Aug 6, 2009 9:56:55 GMT -5 kellycpcm said:

The article in today's ESPN news says the BE wants to expand.

They would like to have Penn State for football

"myespn.go.com/blogs/bigeast"

"For what it's worth, Big East commissioner John Marinatto told me that expansion wasn't brought up this week at the league meetings. He said the conference would of course like to have a ninth football member to help scheduling, but no available school out there provided a fit. He did say, by way of an example, that if Penn State suddenly decided it wanted to stay in an Eastern-based conference, that the Big East would jump all over the opportunity."

And dump DePaul and Seton Hall "

The Big East still has the problem of having too many basketball members -- already at 16. If a team like Maryland or BC became available, though, I would take that chance in a heartbeat and tell DePaul and/or Seton Hall to take a hike.

I would like to be dating Amy Adams.

I eagerly await Entertainment Weekly's cover story on this topic.

[HoyaSinceBirth]

I found this topic funny mostly because on the duke message board discussing this topic they talk about adding Georgetown to the ACC. Which i found amusing.

but DFW i think that's pretty unrealistic. I mean they can't hold the region recruiting wise as is and they already control most of the area fans. Besides it would be a natural rivalry not that maryland would ever leave the ACC but I don't think they'd be in a poisition to kick out a founding member of the big east. Football isnt' everything and the Big East knows that. It's a basketball conference first and foremost. I think it's more likely BC comes back into the fold, but there ego might get in the way. They might not want to admit they made a mistake. Most of the ACC seems to think they were a mistake.

[jgalt]

Im kinda surprised this has been posted yet (especially be Hifi- not a dig, i just know how much you love football, especially anything to do with the gators), but maybe it has and i missed it. Also it probably deserves its own thread, but it may provide some perspective on how some people view the big east football wise:

sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=4369091&sportCat=ncf

Basically some espn reporters decided to throw out the whole system and just make four ten team leagues. that link has more links to each league, which are, in my opinion, pretty intriguing. But where it is relevant to this discussion is that out of those 40 teams only ONE is from the BE. ONE. That means these reporters only consider WVU to be a legitimate football centric school, with enough history, success, and promise to be included. The BE should be more concerned with making their existing teams good and forget about adding another one. (and if you are going to add one, ND is more likely to join than PennSt, and the chances are still really low.)

I suppose if people what to discuss that espn article more, a new thread is probably a good idea, but hey its up to you.

[hifigator]

I actually hadn't seen the article, but it was one of the topics of the day a couple of days ago and was covered pretty much ad nauseum.