Monday, September 19, 2011

Big East Will Live on, Just Not as We Know It

The guys at Big East Coast Bias can rest easy now, just as long as the Big East follows everything exactly as I say it. The Big East is going to lose its nine FBS members; we're beginning to make peace with that. But perhaps the conference was well prepared to be plucked after all, seeing as how they've got eight separate teams that don't play football at the FBS level. It's not going to be pretty, but there's still a fighting chance that the Big East can survive.

As of right now, the Big East's non-football membership includes a couple perennial FCS powers in Georgetown and Villanova. Throw in Rhode Island's football team, and you have a solid foundation for a league. The other five basketball members don't have football teams, meaning the Big East would look to add a few others. This is where things get interesting. The most obvious choices for the Big East to add teams from outside would come from other local FCS conferences, mainly the Colonial America Conference, where Villanova and Rhode Island currently play football. Pulling over Delaware, William & Mary, and James Madison validates a football conference, while other football members Drexel, George Mason, Old Dominion, Virginia Commonwealth, and Northeastern, and UNC-Wilmington all add depth to form a well above-average basketball group. The remaining members (Hofstra, Towson, and New Hampshire) can either be left to fill some of the holes in other conferences, or can come in to replace some of the non-football schools that currently reside in the Big East (DePaul, Marquette, St. John's, Providence, and Seton Hall).

See? It might not be all bad! You just have to look on the bright side! It's the CAA that should be the one worrying, not the Big East! Except for the fact that the commissioner of the conference would still be John Marinatto.

1 comment:

  1. Sorry, but this has got to be one of the more lackluster postings to this blog.

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