Big East adding 5 teams

• gorocks99

  

  http://twitter.com/#!/cbssports
  
  

  BREAKING: Sources tell @CBSSports Big East will add Boise, San Diego St, Houston, UCF, SMU Wednesday. Will join league in 2013​

• wkfan

  And not one of them is a team in the East....
• LJ

  

  So they are adding a bunch of mid major teams in hopes of staying a major conference?
• Fly4Fun

  

  I don't think those teams help them keep their automatic bid. In addition it just further dilutes their basketball glory (although that ship has probably sailed too). How soon till the Big East is just a glorified mid-major conference?
• goosebumps

  

  They are mid-major teams now, but their locations and recruiting bases are anything but. They all have some serious potential to do great things.
• wkfan

  Fly4Fun;1004274 wrote:How soon till the Big East is just a glorified mid-major conference?

  Except for basketball in seasons past...they already are.
• goosebumps

  

  I'll take Boise over WVU, Houston over Pitt, and anyone over syracuse in football any day. Navy and Air Force will be next to the party
• LJ

  

  goosebumps;1004281 wrote:They are mid-major teams now, but their locations and recruiting bases are anything but. They all have some serious potential to do great things.

  meeeeeeeeeeeeeh
  
  San Diego has to compete with UCLA, USC, Stanford, Oregon, and Washington
  
  Boise.... wel they are in Boise
  
  SMU competes with Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, A&M, Texas Tech, Arkansas and Houston
  
  Houston ditto above
  
  UCF competes with UF, FSU and Miami plus the other schools that come into Florida.
  
  I really don't see any of those teams going much beyond what they are now
• goosebumps

  

  People said that about UC when they joined the big east, but we've won 3 conference titles in 4 years. I know, I know its the big east, but people said the conference USA teams wouldn't be able to compete with the teams that were already in the Big East.
• LJ

  

  goosebumps;1004295 wrote:People said that about UC when they joined the big east, but we've won 3 conference titles in 4 years. I know, I know its the big east, but people said the conference USA teams wouldn't be able to compete with the teams that were already in the Big East.

  I never said anything about being able to compete with the already mediocre programs that are in the Big East. I just don't think it makes the Big East really any better
• SportsAndLady

  

  goosebumps;1004281 wrote:They are mid-major teams now, but their locations and recruiting bases are anything but. They all have some serious potential to do great things.

  I agree..when those schools can tell their recruits they have AQ status now, they will only get better.
• Con_Alma

  goosebumps;1004287 wrote:... Navy and Air Force will be next to the party

  IN a recent radio interview posted on the USNA boards the AD stated that the Superintendent would have all the info regarding his evaluation of joining the BE and possibly make a decision in the next week.
• Skyhook79

  

  All the top so called "Mid Major" teams are going to the BCS conferences because they are tired of getting screwed over by the system.
  I love it and will look forward to a Boise St vs Utah or TCU NC game, maybe that will finally blow this system up and we get a playoff.
• Big Gain

  Fly4Fun;1004274 wrote:I don't think those teams help them keep their automatic bid. In addition it just further dilutes their basketball glory (although that ship has probably sailed too). How soon till the Big East is just a glorified mid-major conference?

  It's worse than that. The Big "East" had to add schools from all over the country to be a mid-major conference.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Big Gain;1004367 wrote:It's worse than that. The Big "East" had to add schools from all over the country to be a mid-major conference.

  Oh no! Teams have to travel west like once, twice a year! Oh no!
• georgemc80

  This will mean all the Big East athletic programs will lose money. Can't wait to see that Rutgers vs. Boise volleyball game on a Tuesday night.
• enigmaax

  georgemc80;1004385 wrote:This will mean all the Big East athletic programs will lose money. Can't wait to see that Rutgers vs. Boise volleyball game on a Tuesday night.

  I believe Boise and SD State are football only.
• enigmaax

  Skyhook79;1004340 wrote:All the top so called "Mid Major" teams are going to the BCS conferences because they are tired of getting screwed over by the system.
  I love it and will look forward to a Boise St vs Utah or TCU NC game, maybe that will finally blow this system up and we get a playoff.

  Why would that blow up the system if the money remains in the BCS/AQ conferences?
• SportsAndLady

  

  georgemc80;1004385 wrote:Can't wait to see that Rutgers vs. Boise volleyball game on a Tuesday night.

  Well you (no one) won't ever see that..soooooo
• goosebumps

  

  Yeah boise and san Diego state are football only.
• ts1227

  

  I wonder if they will be more willing to settle with WVU now that they found teams to save the conference*
  
  
  *By save the conference, I mean the equivalent to using duct tape to patch the Titanic.
• sleeper

  

  Boise will go undefeated every year, book it.
• Skyhook79

  

  enigmaax;1004405 wrote:Why would that blow up the system if the money remains in the BCS/AQ conferences?

  The Coat and Tie BCS committee do not want those teams playing for the NC and will do everything in their power to stop it like they have been.
• goosebumps

  

  Gotta disagree sleeper, I don't see boise continuing their dominance
• LJ

  

  sleeper;1004639 wrote:Boise will go undefeated every year, book it.

  They couldnt even go undefeated in the MWC, which happens to be a better conference according to pundits