Article on possible Boise move for 2012

From too late to bloody likely...http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34850593

"Bloody" likely? Downton Abbey fan? But this would be great news and would sell more than a couple of season tickets.

I had to believe getting one of the new schools early was the factor behind the settlement. I think SDSU could be had for about $2.5m. I'd rather have Boise now, I just hope they will still be good.

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The settlement with WVU, from what we know, only makes sense if Boise if in next year. If that's the case, there was no irreperable harm, you were never going to get an injunction and $20M is a great result.

If Boise isn't coming in next year, someone will have to then explain the strategy. that having been said, the Big East used reputable counsel and I'm still betting that Boise playing in league next year, and just taking over WVU's in conference schedule, is all but done.

If something like this is not the case the employment of every decision maker associated with the settlement should be up for review.

FWIW, I'm putting a lot of stock in evaluation of "reputable council".

There seems to be some growing concern in Boise that the WAC (future home for all other sports) may be going the way of the Do-Do bird, as a result of the CUSA/MWC merger, and they could be scrambling to find a home for the other sports. Should be interesting.

Anyone giving odds on BSU using current situation as a way to get into the BB side?

I'd say not too likely... traveling to the east coast for a game once or twice a month is one thing, traveling for more games per week in other sports is another matter. I know they have to fly far in the WAC anyway but this stuff adds up in terms of money and time.

As I stated in the John Marinatto performance thread, the Boise, SDSU, &Navy decisions to join for football only should be revisited. The Big East needs to show a unified front. Its past history with football only federation should be an indicator. These 3 institutions should be in for all sports. As the adage states: Those who don't learn from their past mistakes are bound to repeat them. AFA has it right. Air Force has sacrificed men's basketball conference championships for the stability & scheduling ease for its athletic program as a whole.

Air Force has sacrificed basketball conference championships, but has not heretofore sacrificed the basketball players. I don't think you can make it work logistically in any sport other than football without totally ruining the athletes student and academic lives. Hopefully, that is more important to everyone involved in the universities than conference stability.

I agree on two fronts here. I think that the football only membership is not a desireable thing long term. I also think that forcing the travel that would be required of all athetlic programs right now in the big east, set to join would complete undermine, without question, the concept of student, in student-athlete.

I think that the only way to bring in a unified front, is that in the future, the big east conference further expands it's membership such that east and west divisions compromise a full slate of 10-12 institutions such that the non-revenue sports, as well as football and basketball, each play complete season schedules individually, and then east/west division winners would compete in a national championship for all sports. Basketball could run their own east/west division tournaments, with each tournament winner playing an additional championship game.

If you're going to set a vision, make it big.

Such a structure, would provide the framework, for the end of the BCS, and the formation of true playoff among division 1-A for a national championship in football.

Boise State's non-football sports are in a real pickle. There's talk that the WAC might close up shop by the summer. The WCC, where SDSU is headed, doesn't want Boise. I can't see Providence, Seton Hall, and the other bb schools /BE powers going for Boise.

Memphis rather than BSU arriving early would be more likely, but why wouldn't BSU (which has been told it is the saviour of BE FB) not try to leverage that position into an all sports. From their perspective they already send all teams long distances from Boise.

I think Boise would want to leverage its position to get an all sports invite, and perhaps attempt build a 10 team western all-sports division. The problem is the powers that be that run the conference, the catholic schools, don't want it.

This is a conference that just invited Memphis, the most putrid fbs program in the land. Providence rules the Big East, as taught by BC, VaTech, Miami, Pitt, Syracuse, TCU and WVU.