Tulane to the Big East

[GOMU1104]

Do you guys really think Marquette will be a part of a conference with Tulane? I doubt we are ever even a part of it.

[MKE_GoldenEagleFan]

I don't know where we even go... Plus if we don't intend to be a part of it then why did all these schools vote them in?

[IWB]

It isn't a TV market if the market doesn't give a crap about the team.

Last season they averaged 2,236 fans per home game.
This season their football team averaged 26,066 fans per game, but totals were about 17,000 but the two non-conference games, with Ole Miss and Rutgers really brought out the visiting fans for a weekend on Bourbon Street.

[Goose85]

The Big East needs to hold off adding any new teams and figure out what is going to happen to the ACC.
There is a darn good chance the ACC implodes, at which point who knows - a merger, etc.

Adding other schools at this time, unless specifically instructed to do so by TV and members that want to stay (are there any?), is foolish.
You can tell a school like Tulane you are considering them, but need to wait for this whole thing to shake out in another month.

[GOMU1104]

And now ECU for football only.

Looks to me like they already know Uconn/UL/UC are gone and are finding replacements.

[kneelb4zerg]

It isn't a TV market if the market doesn't give a crap about the team.

Last season they averaged 2,236 fans per home game.
This season their football team averaged 26,066 fans per game, but totals were about 17,000 but the two non-conference games, with Ole Miss and Rutgers really brought out the visiting fans for a weekend on Bourbon Street.

You mean like how the East Coast doesn't care about Rutgers?

[MayorBeluga]

Hizzoner dones't know the last time he was literally speechless.

[IWB]

You mean like how the East Coast doesn't care about Rutgers?

Worse. Rutgers at least carries with them the pedigree of the Big East. Tulane carries a pedigree equivalent to the Springfield Isotopes.

[MUMac]

You mean like how the East Coast doesn't care about Rutgers?

HUGE difference. The Big Ten Network is the reason for that addition. To get them added to the primary tier of cable. The Big East Network does not exist.

[MU88]

Now it makes sense. UC, UL and UConn to ACC, as rumored. Boise and SDSU rejoin the MWC.

Leaves 7 bball schools in one division, 7 football in the other. Two football onlys (Navy and ECU). If Navy gets in the ACC, which was rumored this morning, UC stays, add another hoops teams and you are at 8 and 8.