Memphis to the Big East?

http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/college-basketball-5-things-we-learned-this-week-166127

Don’t be surprised if Memphis, which also has a FBS football team and went to a bowl game last season, finds its way to one of the Big 6 conferences in the near future, most likely the Big 10 (which is still searching for that 12th team for a conference football championship) or the Big East, which has already been rumored to be courting them.

Uh oh...does that mean we go to the America East?

17 teams, really? or do we cut someone? What team would that be? I'm saying Depaul, as they're the only really bad team with no football team, or maybe it's us?? :O

Split the conference? Football and non football? How many schools have football compared to the ones that dont?

Split coming. Conference USA and the Atlantic 10 will be raided.

it'll be a very sad day when an original big east member, and one of the most prestigious programs in the country (and i dont even want to hear from the idiots on this site how 5 years negates the previous 100), gets the boot for 5 down years....and no way this conference expands to a 17th team...thats just ridiculous...memphis prob will move soon, and to a power conference, but not this one

we would get the boot not based on the past five years...but the commitment over the next five.

the most honest posters will agree we won't cut it unless changes are made.

 

I actually don't think we get booted, or that we expand by one. We expand by eight, split into two sub-conferences (football/nonfootball) under the umbrella name "Big East," have two separate conference tourneys, separate vice commissioners, and play nonconference games against traditional rivals in the other Big East league like UConn and Syracuse. Big East launches its own monster TV network and gets 12 teams a year between the sub-conferences into the Big Dance, and another four to six in the NIT.

Villanova                               Louisville
St. John's                              West Virginia
Georgetown                           Pitt
Seton Hall                             Cincy
Providence                            Memphis
St. Joseph's

Dayton                                 UConn
Xavier                                  Syracuse
Notre Dame                          Rutgers
Marquette                             South Florida
DePaul
St. Louis

As for the rest of the football teams, you could give Temple another shot, bring in Army and Navy as football-only members, possibly bring in three out of East Carolina, Tulane, UCF, and Marshall, ask UMass or Hofstra to go balls-out D1, or really be paper bags and try to steal Penn State, Maryland, Boston College, Virginia Tech, or Miami

Apparently a certain word gets edited to "paper bags." 

They will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever get rid of y'all. Come on now guys be serious.

I would love to see the major Catholic schools in the eastern half of the country step up and just form their own league:

St. John's, Georgetown, Providence, Xavier, Notre Dame (minus football), St. Joseph, Villanova, Seton Hall, Marquette
I am sure therey could get a couple of other local teams interested..   maybe St. Bonaventure...

It wouldn't be the massive money maker that BCS schools are but it would be an outstanding hoops league and be solid in other sports. The league would get a TV deal and no doubt an automatic NCAA berth.

what, not DePaul? 

Why would the Big East kick out the only high-major school in the BIGGEST media market in the country?

Why would the Big East kick out the only high-major school in the BIGGEST media market in the country?

Because some miserable fans dont like NORm

The thing people don't realize about Memphis is how far south and WEST it is.  It is a seven to eight  hour drive from Louisville.  It would be the furthest west school in the Big East and the furthest south with the exception of South Florida.


Geographically, they are in the heart of the south and they are not east coast at all.  Their football program is not good enough to screw up everything for the Big East. 

I think they are perfectly suited for C-USA.

Villanova                               Louisville
St. John's                              West Virginia
Georgetown                           Pitt
Seton Hall                             Cincy
Providence                            Memphis
St. Joseph's

Dayton                                 UConn
Xavier                                  Syracuse
Notre Dame                          Rutgers
Marquette                             South Florida
DePaul
St. Louis

As for the rest of the football teams, you could give Temple another shot, bring in Army and Navy as football-only members, possibly bring in three out of East Carolina, Tulane, UCF, and Marshall, ask UMass or Hofstra to go balls-out D1, or really be paper bags and try to steal Penn State, Maryland, Boston College, Virginia Tech, or Miami

Yeah, that's about how it would breakdown though I'm not sure Nova would allow St Joe's in.  I'd think at first they'd look to take Xavier and Dayton and play as a 10 team conference.

The thing people don't realize about Memphis is how far south and WEST it is.  It is a seven to eight  hour drive from Louisville.  It would be the furthest west school in the Big East and the furthest south with the exception of South Florida.


Geographically, they are in the heart of the south and they are not east coast at all.  Their football program is not good enough to screw up everything for the Big East. 

I think they are perfectly suited for C-USA.

yea but thats old school philosophy...actually having big east schools in the big east and so forth...just look at today...we got our ass kicked by a school from wisc...now a days, the big east would take a school from cali if they felt it would improve the conference

Why would the Big East kick out the only high-major school in the BIGGEST media market in the country?

new york is completely irrelevant when it comes to college basketball.

Quote from: TRabinowitz on March 11, 2009, 02:03:31 PM

Why would the Big East kick out the only high-major school in the BIGGEST media market in the country?

new york is completely irrelevant when it comes to college basketball.

FWIW when this happens the football schools will be, at least in name, leaving the Big East - not kicking the hoops schools out.  Public perception might be that the football schools are the real big east but as I understand it the name will stay with those that didn't want to break up, in this case the basketball schools.