Basketball Schools Leaving Big East?

[Stallion]

This is the feeling before a Sandlot Football game when you realize you didn't draft well in choosing sides

[PonySnob]

Good thing all that work is being done at Moody right now..............

[Caballo]

I assume that the seven deserting schools have to pay an exit fee. I wonder if we can capture a portion of those fees. If so we might be on to something. We could just move from conference to conference and accept a portion of the exit fees from the schools which leave. Maybe that is our [deleted] athletic plan.

[Water Pony]

Good thing all that work is being done at Moody right now..............

Correct and the LB hire improves our national brand in any scenario. Funny how SMU, our potential affiliation and FB were enhanced by this move.

[Stallion]

They won't have to pay exit fee because they have power to dissolve onference

[CalallenStang]

They won't have to pay exit fee because they have power to dissolve onference

A power which they may decide against exercising, due to legal complications. Stay tuned.

[jkflamebo]

Boy do I want to be a TCU fan right now.

[Stallion]

They might have to pay big bucks to get the Big East name back

[leopold]

Boy do I want to be a TCU fan right now.

TCU is undoubtably in a better position than we are right now, but don't kid yourselves - they, and the Big XII, are holding on for dear life right now as well.

The Big XII and the ACC are bracing to become the next Big East - Iowa has openly tried to help get ISU into the conference, and practically the entire state of Texas is eyeing the West Coast; half of the Big XII wants into the Big 10, and the other wants the PAC 12.

[redpony]

interesting question- if the C7 dissolve the conference then does all of the money in the conference treasury not go to the remaining member schools? Also, if the C7 leave do they not have to pay the same exit fees as the other schools? How can they keep the conference's money, name and MSG contract if they split? I can't help but believe that this is all going to end up in a lot of litigation.

[SMU2007]

Boy do I want to be a TCU fan right now.

TCU is undoubtably in a better position than we are right now, but don't kid yourselves - they, and the Big XII, are holding on for dear life right now as well.

The Big XII and the ACC are bracing to become the next Big East - Iowa has openly tried to help get ISU into the conference, and practically the entire state of Texas is eyeing the West Coast; half of the Big XII wants into the Big 10, and the other wants the PAC 12.

We are much more likely to go the way of rice than tcu. Don't try to convince yourself that tcu is also worried- they are guaranteed to stay with the big boys regardless

[Comet]

If TCU and the Big XII are clinging on to life, then SMU and the Big East are in the deepest layer of Dante's Inferno.

[leopold]

Boy do I want to be a TCU fan right now.

TCU is undoubtably in a better position than we are right now, but don't kid yourselves - they, and the Big XII, are holding on for dear life right now as well.

The Big XII and the ACC are bracing to become the next Big East - Iowa has openly tried to help get ISU into the conference, and practically the entire state of Texas is eyeing the West Coast; half of the Big XII wants into the Big 10, and the other wants the PAC 12.

We are much more likely to go the way of rice than tcu. Don't try to convince yourself that tcu is also worried- they are guaranteed to stay with the big boys regardless

I won't deny that we are teetering right now between Rice and TCU. No issues there.

But I would bet my paltry government paycheck that Texas has talked to at least two conferences. You watch UT and OU (with possibly OSU) leave for another conference and all of a sudden TCU is right back in the MWC regardless of the name.

What's interesting to me is that the substitution of Louisville for Maryland actually makes the ACC stronger in both football and basketball. Granted, it waters down that conference in terms of the ACC brand identity, but frankly, that went out the door when they started bringing in BC and Pitt. But if FSU and Clemson, schools that were flirting with the Big XII before, can be sold on making the ACC a better football conference and walk away from the Big XII altogether, then yes, the Big XII has more changes coming their way, and not for the better - they couldn't even bring in BYU.

[Stallion]

Big XII is tied up for more than a decade. Even then Texas isn't going anywhere without a quadrant of Texas/Olahoma schools. This is a continuing figment of the imagination of fans who hate Texas. There is absolutely zero evidence that Texas is going to jump on its own. Zero as in Nada. They are going to defend their recruiting footprint until the end and that would only come from some other school. Now in a decade if the PAC wants to talk about a Southwest quadrant -then maybe.

[leopold]

Uh huh. And who said anything about UT jumping on its own? In fact, THAT's the problem every other school in the Big XII is worried about - let the Horn's leave, but who is going with them

Besides, a decade is alot shorter nowadays.