zls44
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We should probably be rooting for the Big 12 to break up otherwise everything else may come to a screeching halt.
... and I want a helicopter to the airport, along with 30 million in unmarked bills or the conference gets it!
Now Mizzou could skip the SEC and they come to WV for 14th team. TAM is going SEC.
So.... no BE/B12 merger of the leftovers. What then?
What then is we have two and a half years to replace Pitt and Syracuse in the Big East with any one or two (two or three if TCU goes Big XII) of Temple, UMass, Houston, UCF, ECU or Memphis. And if we don't keep TCU and WVU in the fold, BCS bid may be gone. And, we have to decide if we want to do this with the Catholics or on our own. And, if we want to do it with them, confirm they still want to do it with us.
Ugh.
For the past couple of days, my gut has been telling me the UT/OK PAC-12 deal wasn't going to go down. That nagging feeling is getting stronger.
As I said in an earlier post, this is where holding Cuse and Pitt to the 27 months becomes crucial. If there are no superconferences, then there is no good reason for the ACC to be at 14. If the college landscape stabilizes over the next few months, whose to say that cooler heads can't prevail and Cuse and Pitt can come back to the fold, - the BE football schools split with BB, and they add a couple of schools (Houston, UCF) to stabilize.
For the past couple of days, my gut has been telling me the UT/OK PAC-12 deal wasn't going to go down. That nagging feeling is getting stronger.
As I said in an earlier post, this is where holding Cuse and Pitt to the 27 months becomes crucial. If there are no superconferences, then there is no good reason for the ACC to be at 14. If the college landscape stabilizes over the next few months, whose to say that cooler heads can't prevail and Cuse and Pitt can come back to the fold, - the BE football schools split with BB, and they add a couple of schools (Houston, UCF) to stabilize.
If the Big East is left sorting through UMass, Temple, Memphis and East Carolina... the Catholics won't even want to stick around for that. They could put together a better league in 5 phone calls.
My view is that if UConn is staying, the Catholics will talk. Even if you assume there is no loyalty, if you're going to have a basketball conference you can't afford not to be talking to what is one of the three dominant programs of the last decade, especially one in your backyard. If they think (or know) UCOnn is gone as well, then I fully agree with you.