Tulane to the Big East

[MUBasketball]

Can MU get out of this mess? I'm hoping Louisville, Cincy, and UConn are all gone to the ACC so MU can back out. This is a complete joke.

Who wants to go with me and burn down the Big East headquarters? Sad say.

[Mucrisco]

Is there a way to burn down college football?

[MU88]

Why Tulane? Easy question. Assuming UL and UConn leave, the BE needed an all sports member to reach the 8 team minimum for football. (You need 8 all sports schools to offer football) PC, Georgetown, MU and Villanova were not going to let a school like ECU (or a Florida directional school or MTSU or USM or NIU) in the conference as a full member. I think those schools bent over and took one for the team when they let Houston, UCF and Memphis in the conference.

So, what other choices are there? I would say Buffalo, Miami of Ohio, Rice and Tulane are about it. Tulane is building a new stadium. Buffalo has been a second rate program for years. Miami is a small market covered by UC. Rice is covered by Houston. So, who wins? I bet Tulane is the only school east of the Mississippi that the networks and the bball school could agree upon.

[Mucrisco]

Why do you need 8 all sports teams for football? Is that an NCAA rule?

[bleedbluegold03]

acknowledging the known future of the Ville and UConn leaving, I truthfully do not understand why this is a better situation than the A10

very comparable competition (with nova down and stj doing little) and don't need to be screwed around by fball schools

[wiscwarrior]

I think Marquette wants to be in any conference that includes Georgetown, Nova and St. John's. They will follow those three schools until it's no longer possible.

[IWB]

I was always against leaving the football schools and the Big East, but if Cincy, UConn & Louisville are indeed out, why play second fiddle to UCF, USF, Houston, SMU & Tulane?

[Halo]

Mac-I agree. I just don't know what to make of this. There has to be something we don't know, right? Who and why voted for them to be in?

[bleedbluegold03]

for 5 years I have always wrote the Big East as BEast

I've reached a tipping point

from here on out, I shall only refer to it as the Big Easy

[MUMac]

for 5 years I have always wrote the Big East as BEast

I've reached a tipping point

from here on out, I shall only refer to it as the Big Easy

Finally, a post through the darkness that made me chuckle.