OFFICIAL BIG EAST INVITE THREAD

LA_Mustang · Post by **LA_Mustang** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:30 pm

ESPN has it as one of their lead stories.....done deal.
www.espn.com

Junior · Post by **Junior** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:37 pm

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... texpansion

AP Source: Big East to invite Boise St, 5 others

PHILADELPHIA (AP)-A person familiar with the decision says the Big East will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the conference was not ready to announce which schools its members had voted Tuesday to extend invitations to in the upcoming days.

Commissioner John Marinatto declined to give specifics of the Big East’s plan after meeting with the league’s presidents at a Philadelphia hotel. He did say he expected the schools to accept.

He acknowledged the league is moving west and reiterated that Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia will not be allowed to leave for their new conferences until July 2014.

The PonyGrad · Post by **The PonyGrad** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:38 pm

LA_Mustang wrote:ESPN has it as one of their lead stories.....done deal.
http://www.espn.com

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-announces-unanimous-vote-invite-new-members
Standard stuff.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:40 pm

i told you guys to chill out. this is a done deal.

that's great raplh · Post by **that's great raplh** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:40 pm

Sec sec sev

The PonyGrad · Post by **The PonyGrad** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:41 pm

Dutch wrote:i told you guys to chill out. this is a done deal.

You da man!

LA_Mustang · Post by **LA_Mustang** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:42 pm

Now I'm happy

ponyboy · Post by **ponyboy** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:42 pm

It happened because of my thread title censorship.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:44 pm

thank goodness you did that.

ponyboy · Post by **ponyboy** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:46 pm

A small on campus statue will suffice.

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:47 pm

there will be a scavenger hunt for it this weekend. it's really small though.

smupony94 · Post by **smupony94** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:47 pm

Just got the rivals text

Dutch · Post by **Dutch** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:49 pm

not even on the ESPN.com home page. but UGA player suspensions is. conspiracy? nah.

GRGB · Post by **GRGB** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:49 pm

The PonyGrad wrote:
Junior wrote:
Mustangsabu wrote:Will there be an announcement in campus do we think? Or just in the press?

given the hoopla around our CUSA invite several years ago, i would have to assume this merits some on-campus PR.

And we could just borrow a lot of the Frog BE PR stuff they have left over from a few months ago.

Can we get nd chancellor to suck our [deleted] too

smubrooks · Post by **smubrooks** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:51 pm

So is there a time line to accept the BE invitation? We don't want to lose out on the BE while waiting for the SEC invitation to get here!