When Navy joins the conference in 2015, the Big East will have 13 football-playing members. The conference wants to add a 14th team from the West to balance their divisions.
Another option the Big East has reportedly considered is adding Air Force, Army, and BYU to create a 16-team league with eight division members.
To accomplish this, the Big East would have to pacify three teams with separate issues. Air Force is currently loyal to the Mountain West Conference, Army hasn’t been interested in joining a conference since leaving C-USA, and BYU wants to keep their home television rights, among other TV issues.
ESPN also reports that the 14-team Big East will play an 8-game conference football schedule. The schedule will consist of six division games and two cross-division games. One of the cross-division games will be permanent, with the match-ups set as follows: Louisville-Cincinnati, USF-UCF, UConn-Rutgers, San Diego State-Boise State, SMU-Houston, Navy-Temple and Memphis versus the 14th team.
Regarding the divisions, ESPN reports that they will be named the Red Division and Blue Division. The most likely setup, which is not geographically oriented, is listed below:
Red Division
Connecticut, Louisville, Memphis, Navy, San Diego State, SMU, USF
Blue Division
Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Rutgers, Temple, UCF, plus 14th team TBD
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This is garbage, the BIG EAST has turned to garbage. As a life-long BIG EAST HOMER I have the right to say that. I'm crushed over Pittsburgh, Syracuse and now Notre Dame leaving, the Basketball conference once the sports BEST is now garbage. Terrible.
These new teams are west coast schools no one cares about, it's awful what happened!!
I love the Big East, Syracuse football was a dream for me to play for in the BIG EAST. I've been too many Big East Tourneys at the Garden on day one, which in my opinion was the best day besides the Championship game. Four games on days one w/ Seton Hall, Rutgers and so on now, you'll have SMU, UCF, my god - What the hell happened???????
you are bull shit sal. It is a good move for the schools.
That is not garbage, I like the idea
I'm happy to see ND leave. They could have saved Big East football years ago. ND is special, they call the shots, and it's all about them. The Orange and Panthers will be sorely missed in basketball - but, it appears that better (winning) football teams are joining the league.
Big East basketball will still be strong. Marquette, G'town, Nova, St. John's, L'ville, UC , Temple, UCONN, Memphis.
That makes perfect sense, let's put Cincinnati and Rutgers in the Blue Division and Memphis and Connecticut in the Red.
Houston & Temple use variations of red too
How about East and West or North and South like normal conferences.
No silly Red and Blue, or Legends and Leaders or Atlantic and Coastal.
Why is anyone considering joining this POS?
The Big East might as well just let Villanova upgrade at this point.
Well, that was rude and unnecessary.
BYU will not join the Big East, because they do not love Boise State.
Boise State enter the WAC, BYU founded the MWC, Boise State enters the MWC, BYU go on independet status.
The Big East will cover a greater space than the 16-team WAC, and will collapse.
UConn plays againt San Diego State ? Stupid.
This would be a better division setup:
Connecticut, Rutgers, USF, Temple, Navy, UCF, plus 14th team TBD
Blue Division
Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, San Diego State, SMU
Yes they will
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Hernandos
Your divisions make much more sense but the Blue(WEST) is much stronger than the other division. I think that is why they are trying to split this way, to balance power.
BYU going independent has nothing to due with Boise St. BYU has a multi-game contract with Boise St, in fact. BYU will join if home game TV rights are settled. I don't see a "BCS-bowl" inviting the BE champion post-BCS though.
PNB, the strength of a division is how good you can recruit high school players.
You are wrong about BYU, they left because of the TV contract. If they hated Boise State so much they wouldn't have signed a 8 game deal!
There will be on Big East in a couple of years. Teams in the west will start to pull out. It is ridiculous the teams in this so called conference.
At least Boise and SDSU will only have to make 3 or 4 football trips across country each year.
WVU will love sending the softball team to Lubbock and the volleyball team to Waco year after year after year.
The Big East may collapse but we have been saying that for 10 years and it still keeps coming back from the dead.
This is all BS last I read both BYU and Air Force turned down the big east before and wants nothing to do with it. BYU is still being considered a big 12 member an Air Force no desire to join a conference that will likely have auto birth only a year or two more! The way the MWC is will be stronger then the Big East, only thing East has in year or two is Boise.
Uconn wants in the ACC n Louisville and cincy want in the big 12. With ND joining ACC they need one more team to even basketball conference hence uconn will finally get invite. Big 12 will add two more teams to compete with other conferences adding both cincy an Louisville is smart for basketball an their football teams are good too also geographicly makes it nicer too. If Big 12 wants to up it to 14 BYU gets invite an to add in Rutgers yes I said Rutgers will bring conference up an complete to 14. These teams add in new tv market more money for conference overall. Adding these teams makes it easier for conference division too. If not Rutgers only other team I could see in Big 12 would be Nevada or Utah State which are both showing off strong this year.
ACC is not adding anyone. If they do, they would have an odd number of football schools.
this would make sense for the acc... add uconn, rutgers, and georgetown... give you 16 for football, 18 for everything else... and they would do basketball scheduling like this: 18 games, 17 against everyone else, another 1 against your rival: (fsu-mia) (gt-clem) (unc-duke) (wake-ncsu) (uva-vt) (umd-gt) (nd-pitt) (cuse-uconn) (rutg-bc)... football: 2 eight team divisions... easy!!!
There's some very good points made by many of you, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THERE'S MANY CHILDREN IN HERE STARTING WITH connER. There's no-reason to call someone names - GROW UP!!!!!!!!!
I concur.
I just hope they'll consider renaming the conference. They are tarnishing the legacy of the Big East conference, and with some prominent members moving to the ACC, they may as well stop the charade and give the thing a new moniker. How about just the "Big Conference"? "Confused Conference"? "We'll Take Anyone We Can Get Conference"?