The BEast is NOT meeting with CUSA/MWC

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:15 pm

"We are not part of any meeting with those two conferences,'' Big East spokesman John Paquette told the Daily News, in no uncertain terms.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/weiss/ ... um=twitter

How many times will they have to deny it before people actually believe the denials?

ColoStang · Post by **ColoStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:22 pm

Andy Katz's ESPN.com article makes it sounds like a sure thing. ESPN can suck it.

StallionsModelT · Post by **StallionsModelT** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:24 pm

I was listening to Van Pelt on ESPN Sirius and he was basically saying the Big East as a football conference is finished.

SMU2007 · Post by **SMU2007** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:24 pm

andy katz is a [deleted]

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:24 pm

ColoStang wrote:Andy Katz's ESPN.com article makes it sounds like a sure thing. ESPN can suck it.

Andy Katz is about as reliable for conference realignment news as a cat. Doesn't know anything but will keep meowing and hope that the noise it makes will eventually lead to it being fed.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:24 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:I was listening to Van Pelt

Stopped reading here

ColoStang · Post by **ColoStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:26 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:I was listening to Van Pelt on ESPN Sirius and he was basically saying the Big East as a football conference is finished.

How do you fall for this? I keep asking people on message boards and in other places that state the big east is now dead, "How so?"

And i ask you, and SVP and whoever else, how is it dead? Where is Louisville dead? Where is Cincy going? Where is USF going? how bout UConn and Rutgers?

This notion is stupid, its not dead!! People keep saying this because they hear it on ESPN.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:27 pm

As I posted on the CUSA board (as part of a longer post, the other part of which isn't really relevant to our discussion here):

There is no incentive for the Big East to go into merger talks with CUSA and MWC. They currently have a seat at the table. That means that they can take whoever they want, without having to accept whoever they don't want. This makes their bargaining position for 2014 stronger than that of the 28-to-32-team alliance that would consist of three conferences.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:31 pm

exactly. why would they even consider a merger? they're at the grown up table already, even if the legs to the chair are weak, they're there. I interpret this to mean that CUSA & MWC KNOW that SMU, UH, UCF, Boise, AFA all leaving would mean that even if they did have a playoff, they won't get a BCS bid.

PonyKai · Post by **PonyKai** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:37 pm

Dutch wrote:exactly. why would they even consider a merger?

Bannowski said he'd bring brownies to the meeting. Homemade ones.

03Mustang · Post by **03Mustang** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:39 pm

CoxMustangFan wrote:
Dutch wrote:exactly. why would they even consider a merger? they're at the grown up table already, even if the legs to the chair are weak, they're there. I interpret this to mean that CUSA & MWC KNOW that SMU, UH, UCF, Boise, AFA all leaving would mean that even if they did have a playoff, they won't get a BCS bid.

CUSA and MWC teams are just scared to face the fact that they're about to be put in the cat crap filled sandbox with the other drooling kids...

Which, up until a month or so ago, is exactly how we all felt.

GiddyUp · Post by **GiddyUp** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:39 pm

People fall for anything they read on the Internet

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:40 pm

Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:
Dutch wrote:exactly. why would they even consider a merger?

Bannowski said he'd bring brownies to the meeting. Homemade ones.

I make good brownies

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:18 pm

ESPN ticker just said the following:

MWC/BE/CUSA officials to meet Wednesday. BE officials say the meeting will not be in-person.

NickSMU17 · Post by **NickSMU17** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:28 pm

I officially hate espn...