Memphis to Big East in 2013

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#26
Basketball will be alright (with a much better home schedule). Football will get some BCS money.

Even if they go 0-12 in the BE, I would take the BCS money. 1-11 in C-USA with no BCS money or 0-12 with BCS money. Easy.

Win for Memphis.
 
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Sith Vol said:
Didn't mean it like that. Just to show how bad Cincy was in the CUSA and how they turned up. Memphis in a BCS bowl will never, ever happen.
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If UConn can get to a BCS bowl, Memphis definitely can get to a BCS bowl. Same goes for Cincinnati. I don't think there should be any question about it.
 
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Big East vs SEC Challenge:

Memphis vs UK in Memphis' inaugural season at Memphis. That'd be an interesting game.
 
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Gcrop said:
Basketball will be alright (with a much better home schedule). Football will get some BCS money.

Even if they go 0-12 in the BE, I would take the BCS money. 1-11 in C-USA with no BCS money or 0-12 with BCS money. Easy.

Win for Memphis.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
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And this is why the BCS exists. So long AQ status... adding a good basketball school to stay relevant for football. Sorry, but the Big East failed on this one. Adding a dump school, in a dump city that wins like 1 game a year in cusa for football. The addition actually makes them worse in football and they were already horrible before the departures of the other schools. They'd be a stronger football conference by not adding Memphis. Seriously... strip them of AQ status.
 
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BlueHalo said:
I root for Memphis to do well, until they play or recruit against UT directly. Same with Vandy. Great city, great people, gets a bad rep. (some for good reason)
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Go read VandyMania. Omg... lol.

There was a dude on there and his sister was supporting him, claiming he should have been allowed to speak to the team prior to the game. Uh... what? lolllllllll!!!! Apparently people really involved with the program post on VandyMania and use the forum as a platform to look stupid. They all run their mouth and the worst part is, most of them don't know basic English. It takes 10 extra seconds to punctuate but they have no clue what grammar even is. They know all about running their mouths though.
 
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I actually think this may be the first realignment issue that was actually basketball driven.
 
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The_Orange_Pearl said:
And this is why the BCS exists. So long AQ status... adding a good basketball school to stay relevant for football. Sorry, but the Big East failed on this one. Adding a dump school, in a dump city that wins like 1 game a year in cusa for football. The addition actually makes them worse in football and they were already horrible before the departures of the other schools. They'd be a stronger football conference by not adding Memphis. Seriously... strip them of AQ status.
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???

A conference that was a BCS qualifier, loses:

West Virginia
Syracuse
Pitt

and adds:

Boise State
Houston
UCF

and is stripped of it's BCS AQ bid? Does not compute, although the league may get watered down a bit, these three teams are an updrade over the 3 leaving.

Whether the BE deserved an AQ spot prior to the realignment is another can of worms, but using the teams going vs. teams coming in as an argument for losing AQ doesn't hold water.
 
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Thrasher865 said:
Are they trying to keep their automatic BCS bid? By adding essentially Boise State and UCF? I guess Houston....
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(if true) They needed a 12th team for championship game purposes (they were looking at 11) and talks with BYU fell through

...I presume they got in a position where they had to take a more western-ish team
 
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The_Orange_Pearl said:
Go read VandyMania. Omg... lol.

There was a dude on there and his sister was supporting him, claiming he should have been allowed to speak to the team prior to the game. Uh... what? lolllllllll!!!! Apparently people really involved with the program post on VandyMania and use the forum as a platform to look stupid. They all run their mouth and the worst part is, most of them don't know basic English. It takes 10 extra seconds to punctuate but they have no clue what grammar even is. They know all about running their mouths though.
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....Go on....
 
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Velo Vol said:
How many teams are in the Big East now?
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This -if true - should make 12 in football once Syracuse, wvu, and Pitt are cleared and leave

Their first choice for 12 was BYU but those talks fell through once the big east refused to let BYU have a similar kind of "we don't share our independent network deal rights and revenue" deal to what texas has
 
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I like this move from the basketball side of things. The football team will continue to get steamrolled, though.
 
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orangesox said:
I actually think this may be the first realignment issue that was actually basketball driven.
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That or a desperation grab / saving throw (term my friend used...no clue what it means)

Part of their deal with having Boise st for football was that the big east would (soon) divide into divisions (/ create a west division for Boise to play in and not travel as far) and they really needed a (more) western team at this point
 
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TrueOrange said:
That or a desperation grab / saving throw (term my friend used...no clue what it means)

Part of their deal with having Boise st for football was that the big east would (soon) divide into divisions (/ create a west division for Boise to play in and not travel as far) and they really needed a (more) western team at this point
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No offense, but you're friends with a nerd.

It's more market related than football related, and may be an olive branch to appease the basketball only schools as well. They just got dealt a huge RPI blow when UCF, SMU and Houston got on board.
 
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gorockytop101 said:
I just wonder how long it will take UCONN and L'ville to gtfo.
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louisville would probably leave if the big 12 decided it wanted 12 teams (would be a few years) and came calling


not sure where i'd see Uconn going anytime soon though
 
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