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and we get NTSU or LaTech to CUSA. Or....and this may be interesting...TCU comes back to CUSA.

Let them go where-ever they like, and let TCU take their place in C-USA (not that I'm sure they would want to). Maybe UNT, I would just like to see more derby matches.

I like the comment where the guy brags about a 180 million dollar endowment...

if this would happen, c-usa basketball would be the worst in the country

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UPDATE ACCORDING TO A BIG EAST SPOKESPERSON:

Its not going to happen!!

I [Adam Zagoria] called Big East spokesman John Paquette to track down these rumors that Memphis might join the Big East and he categorically denied them.

"No truth," Paquette said by phone from Rhode Island. "I saw the clip. It's a TV report with no named sources. No one from the University of Memphis. No on-the-record sources. We've been down this road. We are not talking about expansion with any institution."



I might understand Memphis basketball, but that is what 17 teams? Memphis football adds little, other than another football team/mouth to feed and the Liberty Bowl.

The Big East needs to decide if they will be a basketball conference or an all sports conference before considering expansion. And that would most likely mean a split.

Mustangsabu wrote:Let them go where-ever they like, and let TCU take their place in C-USA (not that I'm sure they would want to). Maybe UNT, I would just like to see more derby matches.

I don't think TCU moving back to CUSA is in the cards. I'm not sure trading road trips to San Diego, Vegas, and Colorado Springs for ones to Hattisburg, Greenville, and El Paso is a real winner.

But of course I don't see Memphis going anywhere either.. so moot point.

deepellumfrog wrote:...road trips to San Diego, Vegas, and Colorado Springs...

With gas at $4 a gallon, I hope you drive a hybrid...

I can see it happening. Not this year, maybe next. I believe it depends on how the Basketball team does next year. Big East is still a Basketball Conference always will be.

I would love to see the Frogs in CUSA. Who knows, with rising travel cost it could happen.

Big East expansion will not be happening in the foreseeable future. There are a number of reasons, but the most important may be that it would result in their being 9 schools that play football while there would still only be 8 schools that only play basketball. The Big East could have expanded to 12 teams in football in order to gain a lucrative title game, but keeping the balance between football and basketball only schools is part how the conference continues to function. If the Big East ever expands it will do so by taking 4 football schools, which would most likely result in the basketball schools breaking off. Adding on a single team is pointless as it would only create animosity amongst football and basketball schools and cause revenue to be split with yet another school.

Memphis isn't going to the BE. Why? First, they have a road to the dance made for them here in CUSA every year. In the BE there are good teams that might go to the NIT. Of the 16 teams in the BE 10 of them boast strong basketball resumes. Second, why would the football teams want to feed another mouth who doesn't bring more money to the football table? Now if Memphis came bearing the Liberty Bowl, that might be worth something to the BE, but they already can't fill their bowl slots. Lastly, the other BE basketball schools don't want another good team to have to play in conference. Imagine a conference schedule with Memphis, Georgetown, Marquette, WVA, Pitt, UConn, Syracuse, Louisville, Cincinnati, DePaul, Notre Dame, and then you still have to hold serve against Rutgers, Providence, St. Johns, Seton Hall, and of course South Florida and I'm still missing one team. That's a meat grinder. Now if the BE splits into two conferences (which ain't gonna happen), then you might have something to look at.

TCU has zero reason to return to CUSA.

In 2004, moving to the MWC seemed to some like a lateral move. But in retrospect, it was a big step up.

Mr Froggiewoggie wrote:In 2004, moving to the MWC seemed to some like a lateral move. But in retrospect, it was a big step up.

Is that why you keep trying to leave your conference? Do not make your conference out to be something it is not, and that something is BCS.

Samurai Stang wrote:

Mr Froggiewoggie wrote:In 2004, moving to the MWC seemed to some like a lateral move. But in retrospect, it was a big step up.

Is that why you keep trying to leave your conference? Do not make your conference out to be something it is not, and that something is BCS.

We've never tried to leave the Mountain West.