With your setup, Notre Dame should be in the Basketball only division, since they don’t play football in the Big East.
Villanova does play football, but they play in the I-AA (FCS) Division. Same with Georgetown. They could move the football programs up to the BCS division of Division and Play in the Big East.
>> With your setup, Notre Dame should be in the Basketball only division, since they don’t play football in the Big East. <<
It’s a big school, it’s in the mid-west, it’s known for its football program, and if there are only conference nine football teams and 11 basketball teams, someone’s gotta go into the football conference. It just makes sense that it be Notre Dame. But if Temple and TCU both join, and St. Louis stays out, then, yes, I agree, and accordingly, I’ve placed it with the basketball programs.
>> Villanova does play football, but they play in the I-AA (FCS) Division. Same with Georgetown. <<
Like the other teams in the “Basketball-only” Conference, they’re small schools, private (nominally Catholic), and placing them in the Basketball-only East maintains the old rivalries. If they were to move up, they would be by far the smallest IAA teams, and would weaken, rather than strengthen, the Big East. They could, however, be teams #11 and 12, allowing for a Big East Football Conference Championship game. Even if that did happen, it would still make most sense to leave the divisions as they are.