Posted on 12/06/2011 2:49:54 PM PST by ColdOne
The Big East is set to add Boise State, San Diego State, SMU, UCF and Houston as it begins to rebuild its league, with an announcement expected as early as Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN.com.
Boise State and San Diego State of the Mountain West will enter the league as football-only members, while Houston, SMU and UCF, all of Conference USA, will join the Big East for all sports, sources told ESPN.com.
The five schools have been long rumored as candidates to join a battered league that has seen the defections of Pittsburgh, Syracuse, TCU and West Virginia in the last few months, leaving it with five football-playing members.
Navy, a football indepedent, has not yet joined as a football-only member, but is expected to do so once some "loose ends" are ironed out, a source told ESPN.com's Andy Katz.
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Forget the fact that these teams are in the northwest and south, why would they want to join a cratering conference? Why not start your own.
OK. Nice, now where is the “SATIRE” disclosure? I mean Boise State, San Diego State, SMU, UCF and Houston fit so well geographically with Big East.
East of what, the Pacific???
Hey, everything is east of something!
A name change would seem to be in order. How about the All-America Conference?
I’m just thankful they didn’t come to the Big 12 (or 10 or 9 or whatever we are this week). I could not stomach having to watch games on that blue field every other year.
End result of not teaching geography.
Navy went the conference route before as I recall and it didn’t do them well - I’d prefer they stay independent.
Go Navy Beat Army
USNA ‘89
Exactly. It’s ridiculous anymore to specify a geographic area for a conference. It’s also ridiculous to enumerate them.
ML/NJ
Idaho is in the East? What’s next...?
Sky will be green? LOL!
Hehehe! For the record they are the team in our parts.
A conference with 12 schools calls itself the Big 10 and a conference with 10 schools calls itself the Big 12 so it makes sense that a conference called the Big East would have teams in San Diego and Boise. This is what the higher education system that charges you into debt produces, folks.
Safer to go to community college.
I hear the Big Least pays much better than the MWC, and probably the same thing goes for CUSA. It's all about the Benjamins.
How about we let them keep West Virginia and we add SMU and Houston to the Big 12?
I hope they like flying!
It’s so silly. What’s next, Wisconsin to the SEC? ;D
It’s all relative. San Diego is the furthest east of the major cities in California.
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