Schools may attempt to rejoin MWC

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I'm not sure from the article whether these are serious or just a speculative panic (either by the schools or reported by the apparently unnamed source) because of the Big East likely getting ready to lose 2 more schools
 
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TrueOrange said:
I'm not sure from the article whether these are serious or just a speculative panic (either by the schools or reported by the apparently unnamed source) because of the Big East likely getting ready to lose 2 more schools
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Who's the 2 new ones? Or are you just talking about Rugters, Pitt, and Syracuse? You think the ACC is going to officially go after UConn now?

Of course the ACC fallout may just be beginning.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Who's the 2 new ones? Or are you just talking about Rugters, Pitt, and Syracuse? You think the ACC is going to officially go after UConn now?
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Rutgers (since they're expected to announce their departure tomorrow) was one (the "more" was relative to their having already lost 3 of their previous 8 teams in the last year alone - WV, Pitt, Cuse). The other being that the ACC will most likely (barring a choice to stay at 13, which seems less likely) respond by inviting Uconn/Louisville to join the conference to get back to an even 14 (very more than likely, it'd be UCONN here; just Louisville getting consideration was also mentioned by USA Today, I believe)


Of course the ACC fallout may just be beginning.
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Possibly, but the conference isn't likely going to fall apart yet from just 1 team leaving. Now if more start then it's certainly possible. (However, the last word on any FSU/Clemson and the Big 12 was that Texas still didn't want the schools joining, and that the people who wrote up the Big 12's TV contracts said that Notre Dame was really the only one out of the options they had that was big/important enough to really increase the conference's revenue among the teams)
 
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TrueOrange said:
aren't they getting 2 more next year? Like Utah State and San Jose State or something?
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Yep, Utah St. and SJSU. They'll have 10 next year.

So if this "BSU/SDSU/BYU" back to the MWC happens, they'll be at 13. New Mexico St. will probably beg to be let in.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Yep, Utah St. and SJSU. They'll have 10 next year.

So if this "BSU/SDSU/BYU" back to the MWC happens, they'll be at 13. New Mexico St. will probably beg to be let in.
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I'm curious to see then if a conference whose formation was really rooted in original WAC teams breaking away from the WAC because it became too large and unwieldy, is really all that willing to jump up to 13 or 14 teams


...sure there's some irony there.
 
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The way the "access bowls" are arranged, it's a good move. The Big East will no longer have AQ status after next year, and you'd have insane travel costs in non-revenue sports for Boise and SDSU's move to the Big East to be viable.
 
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Love how an "ESPN spokesman declined comment" when asked about the BYU contract...in a news article written by an ESPN reporter. The conflicts of interest at the Worldwide Leader are obscene.
 
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You know what else? Take away Rutgers and the likely loss of Uconn, what do you get?


(from a USA Today article from Sunday)

If Rutgers were to follow Maryland to the Big Ten and also lose UConn, the league would essentially mimic the group of teams that merged from the Metro and Great Midwest Conferences to form Conference USA in the mid-1990s
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KingNick865 said:
The way the "access bowls" are arranged, it's a good move. The Big East will no longer have AQ status after next year, and you'd have insane travel costs in non-revenue sports for Boise and SDSU's move to the Big East to be viable.
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Speaking of insane travel costs, i saw friday on espn that the Big East was gonna divide into an east and west division and that Temple was gonna be in the western division. Temple is further east than most team in the eastern side lol
 
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i'm telling yall right now look for louisville to head to the big 12...not sure of the other school yet to make the big 12 at 12 again but louisville will go there or the ACC...the big east is falling apart
 
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Vols4life said:
i'm telling yall right now look for louisville to head to the big 12...not sure of the other school yet to make the big 12 at 12 again but louisville will go there or the ACC...the big east is falling apart
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Big 12 doesn't want to be at 12 again yet; plus Louisville doesn't bring them in anymore money

Louisville will probably try to market itself heavy to the ACC (& won't get in). After that I'm not sure they'd really go anywhere unless the Big East actually decided to cease operations...they may just stay in what's left of it with Memphis, cincinnati, usf, UCF, SMU, Houston, temple, Navy, and whomever else they may or may not add
 
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