http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebas...-hall-marquette-providence-121312?ocid=ansfox The big East appears to have major issues again
Been coming for a long time now. The Big East was a great basketball league, but it's always struggled as a football league. But in todays world it's football that stirs the drink. That's why Jim Boeheim was so upset that Syracuse left for the ACC, but he said he realized that it was really a football decision...read that money. Now those 7 schools, which are all Catholic Universities, will have to decide if they want to form a totally new league and see if they can attract a few other schools from the A10 like Xavier and Dayton and form their own conference. What is not known is whether or not the supposed new members of the league like Boise State, Houston, SMU, etc will go through with their membership. The Big East football league has been down graded to be in the same group with the MAC, Mtn West, etc. So I've have seen reports that Boise State, BYU, Houston, SMU, Tulsa and maybe somebody else will join the Mountain West and make it a 16 team league with 2 8 Team divisions. It will make a lot of sense from both a football sense and from a travel point.
Never should have been given a seat at the table in the first place. Sad to see the conference die, though.
the Big East became a major conference when Miami joined. Then Va Tech became a power. Those two and several others left for the ACC and I don't see the conference surviving. What happens to some of the football schools who are really in the Eastern part of the country, who knows?