Memphis to Big East in 2013

#53
#53
11am press conference Wed to announce U of M joining Big East in 2013.

Good move for Memphis.
 
#55
#55
MemphisCanes said:
....Go on....
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It took me 20 seconds to type that. Remember when you went back and edited your post? It was right after this one. By the way, all I forgot was an "s". I'm saying they can't spell and don't use apostrophes or commas. The best you could do was calling me out on forum abbreviations. Congratulations, you'd fit right in at Memphis and Miami.

It's funny you think the Big East is getting better. Is that why the crumbling Big 12 didn't want Boise State or Houston? Or how about the ACC passing on UCF?

You're right... the Big East totally got better. Especially with the addition of Memphis. :wacko:
 
#56
#56
The_Orange_Pearl said:
It took me 20 seconds to type that. Remember when you went back and edited your post? It was right after this one. By the way, all I forgot was an "s". I'm saying they can't spell and don't use apostrophes or commas. The best you could do was calling me out on forum abbreviations. Congratulations, you'd fit right in at Memphis and Miami.

It's funny you think the Big East is getting better. Is that why the crumbling Big 12 didn't want Boise State or Houston? Or how about the ACC passing on UCF?

You're right... the Big East totally got better. Especially with the addition of Memphis. :wacko:
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Not sure what this has to do with anything. I'm impressed that you're so fired up about this though. I am as well.
 
#58
#58
The Big Least is going to be one of the top conferences of the also-ran types when the big 4 each go to 16 and pull out into a 64 team alignment. The remaining BCS schools and some of the FCS schools will be the 2nd tier.
 
#66
#66
One beneficiary, from an outsider, is that the Memphis-Louisville rivalry will be revived (if Louisville stays put). I always loved and respected that rivalry.
 
#67
#67
The Big East is listening to Pitino too much. Just as they did when BC, Miami, and VT left, the Big East is going with a basketball solution to a football program, which isn't the best move for the health of the conference. Great move for Memphis though.
 
#68
#68
MemphisCanes said:
???

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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In terms of the current quality of the teams coming and going, I agree with you. But, I think a big reason the Big East held on to its BCS bid as long as it did was that losing it would have cut out a lot of big TV markets in the Northeast. WVU's not a big market, but they are a "brand." Who's the biggest brand left that otherwise disinterested football fans will watch? I guess it's Boise. The Big East is probably more likely to be judged by the BCS solely on the merits of its football programs now.
 
#70
#70
It will be interesting to see if Memphis continues to play UT in any sports after this move. In football, it could still benefit Memphis in some ways, but getting UT to come to the Liberty Bowl once every other year is not nearly as important as it was when Memphis was scraping by in C-USA. Hoops-wise, it doesn't benefit the Tigers at all to play Tennessee anymore. You could justify it in the past because you needed good non-conference games, but now that Memphis is moving to a superior hoops league it's very one-sided to UT's favor.
 
#71
#71
Is the Big East going to start playing a football championship game? Memphis makes 12, right?
 
#72
#72
bamawriter said:
Is the Big East going to start playing a football championship game? Memphis makes 12, right?
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I presume so / that was my guess. The only way Boise agreed to join was if there'd be a west division (thus 12 and by rule a championship game)


This should give them that...though you have to wonder if they should have just let BYU not share its ESPN money
 
#73
#73
ukvols said:
In terms of the current quality of the teams coming and going, I agree with you. But, I think a big reason the Big East held on to its BCS bid as long as it did was that losing it would have cut out a lot of big TV markets in the Northeast. WVU's not a big market, but they are a "brand." Who's the biggest brand left that otherwise disinterested football fans will watch? I guess it's Boise. The Big East is probably more likely to be judged by the BCS solely on the merits of its football programs now.
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Fair enough. Although the ACC pached some football markets in the NE, the Big East still retains some of the stronger college football fanbase/markets in that area in Rutgers and Uconn (I say "stronger" in respect to the programs that left, Pitt and Cuse. Neither carries a huge football following, although Pitt brings the Pittsburgh TV base) WVU was indeed a brand, but not a desirable TV market. Head scratched there by the B12.

While there was some loss in the NE markets, the BE still has a footprint there. Additionally, the BE has spread into Florida, Texas, So. California and, with Memphis, the heart of SEC country.
 
#74
#74
The big 12 move for wvu was essentially a "who else bigger/ moderately recognizable brand can we get" with an additional "without disadvantgeously opening up Texas even more and hurting the main Texas-member teams"


They didn't really have alot of options to get to 10 honestly
 
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