The Big East, unwilling to do the smart thing and just call off football, and reconstitute as an elite 8-team B-Ball conference, has handed out 5 new invites to "football" schools.
So, ladies and germs, here are your new, distinguished Big East members (should they choose to accept):
-Central Florida
-Houston
-SMU
-Air Force (football only)
-Boise State (football only)
No, people. I'm serious.
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Excellent! Now at least there'll be an avaiation-related team worth rooting for with east coast ties...
Side note--every conference should have to relinqish names based on a geographic region or the number of teams in the conference. This is truly getting ridiculous...
Umm... last I checked, every Atlantic Coast Conference team is from a state on the Atlantic coast. big 10, sec and Big 12 have stayed within their historical regions as well.
Pac 10 has gone far inland, but is still the only power conference in the Rockies.
The Big East just has no rhyme or reason to where they've gone, other than offering themselves up like a cheap slut without a date on prom night.
Well, Pac 10 was making a huge push to grab teams from Texas, and the Big 10 and 12 have had counting issues for quite a while now.
And most of the smaller conferences that inintially started out geographically based (Sun Belt, Mountain West, eg) have had to stretch beyond thier "named" regions to try to gain traction under the BCS system.
If the ACC ever has a problem with their name, it'll be pretty pathetic since they can legitimately claim about 12 states and there are another few that most people wouldn't raise an eyebrow over.
Pac 10's bigest problem will be that whole # thing (and that technically, they should only have 5 states to truly encompass...).
What's the over/under on how long it takes for corporations to take over conference naming rights, a la Bowl games...
The ACC will have name problems if one of two schools want to join: Texas or Notre Dame. Both.are such game changes from a $ standpoint that any conference would take either (with the exception of the SEC, where A&M would try to block Texas).
The fact that the Big East, post expansion, might be as similarly scattershot as the Mountain West or Conference USA and other mid majors? Yep.
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