BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

But just wait until UNC and UVa go to the Big Ten, Virginia Tech and NC State go to the SEC and Florida State and Clemson go to the Big 12. ECU might finally achieve its dream of getting into the ACC.

 

Why would you even do this if you're East Carolina? That Big East TV contract they're working out keeps taking hits and will continue to do so when Louisville and UConn hit the road. And now they have to find a home for their other sports. SoCon? CAA? Was being in CUSA really that much of a drop from what the nBE will look like in 2015?

Tulane will be a nice riches-to-rags-to-kinda riches story, but I don't get it myself. Do they even move the needle in New Orleans? If they wanted to win that market, they'd lease a spot on St. Peter Street, open up The Big Easty and sell $2 hurricanes to anyone who can walk under their own power.

 

Oh, and lest we forget, Grand Canyon to the WAC full time. Oh yea.

 

Well, someone has to take Denver's spot now that they're shuffling off to the beacon of athletic excellence we call the Summit.

 

I like their chances in the whitewater rafting conference tourney.

 

Tulane...'cause why the fuck not?

 

Tulane, East Carolina joining The Big East

It appears that Tulane isn't the last university to leave Conference USA for the Big East.
East Carolina will join the Big East as a football-only member in 2014.
The Big East has already announced that Tulane will join the conference for all sports in the 2014-15 academic year.

 

The addition of Tulane and East Carolina will give the Big East 13 football members in 2014 -- UConn, Louisville, South Florida, Cincinnati, Tulane, Temple, Boise State, San Diego State, UCF, SMU, Memphis, Houston and ECU.

Of those 13 schools, nine are former members of Conference USA, two are former Mountain West members and one is a former Mid-American Conference member.

 

When are the Big East football schools going to grow up, realize they have nothing in common with the Catholic basketball schools, and just leave and form their own conference?

 

Time to split the thread into conferences that will have automatic bids to the host and access bowls, and the have-nots.

 

Should've happened years ago.

 

I've always figured it would be the non-football schools that would walk first.

And because Arizona needs a fourth D-1 school, dammit.