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Uconn president susan herbst calls confidential meeting of big east football presidents for sunday in Washington D.C. to discuss future of league.
This broad has some pair!
This broad has some pair!
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tom in salem
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7031700/big-east-presidents-meet-weekend-discuss-future
Big East presidents to discuss future
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The presidents of the Big East member schools will discuss the future of the conference at a meeting this weekend, UConn president Susan Herbst said Wednesday.
Herbst, in an email to The Associated Press, said the meeting in Washington on Sunday is a confidential gathering for conference presidents only and will not involve other university officials.
"We have to talk about the future and how to go forward as a strong Big East," she wrote.
Last week, the Big East presidents and athletic directors met at a hastily called meeting in New York City to discuss strategies for restocking the league after Syracuse and Pittsburgh said they are leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
After that meeting, commissioner John Marinatto said the schools had committed to going forward as a group and recruiting new members. Navy and Air Force are the Big East's top targets for expansion.
But multiple officials at Connecticut said the school did not agree to stay in the Big East Conference, and earlier this week Gov. Dannel P. Malloy confirmed that UConn has expressed interest in joining the ACC if it expands further from 14 to 16 teams.
Herbst on Wednesday assured members of the school's board of trustees that UConn is still working with the Big East, and urged them to "ignore the gossip on the national scene."
"Big East presidents have been engaged in frequent communication by phone or in person," she said. "We're committed together to make the Big East work, to make it stronger in spite of the announcement that Syracuse and Pittsburgh will leave to go to the ACC."
Malloy said this week that he did not expect the issue of conference realignment to be resolved quickly, and said he suspected further expansion of the ACC might hinge on whether Notre Dame was interested in joining that conference.
Herbst reiterated to the board of trustees that she will do what is in the best interests of the school, and its student athletes and "to ensure the successful long term future of the athletic program and to pursue the wishes of this board and our community."
"We'll play somewhere, and we'll be very open and transparent about our needs and our priorities as this moves forward," she said.
Big East presidents to discuss future
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The presidents of the Big East member schools will discuss the future of the conference at a meeting this weekend, UConn president Susan Herbst said Wednesday.
Herbst, in an email to The Associated Press, said the meeting in Washington on Sunday is a confidential gathering for conference presidents only and will not involve other university officials.
"We have to talk about the future and how to go forward as a strong Big East," she wrote.
Last week, the Big East presidents and athletic directors met at a hastily called meeting in New York City to discuss strategies for restocking the league after Syracuse and Pittsburgh said they are leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
After that meeting, commissioner John Marinatto said the schools had committed to going forward as a group and recruiting new members. Navy and Air Force are the Big East's top targets for expansion.
But multiple officials at Connecticut said the school did not agree to stay in the Big East Conference, and earlier this week Gov. Dannel P. Malloy confirmed that UConn has expressed interest in joining the ACC if it expands further from 14 to 16 teams.
Herbst on Wednesday assured members of the school's board of trustees that UConn is still working with the Big East, and urged them to "ignore the gossip on the national scene."
"Big East presidents have been engaged in frequent communication by phone or in person," she said. "We're committed together to make the Big East work, to make it stronger in spite of the announcement that Syracuse and Pittsburgh will leave to go to the ACC."
Malloy said this week that he did not expect the issue of conference realignment to be resolved quickly, and said he suspected further expansion of the ACC might hinge on whether Notre Dame was interested in joining that conference.
Herbst reiterated to the board of trustees that she will do what is in the best interests of the school, and its student athletes and "to ensure the successful long term future of the athletic program and to pursue the wishes of this board and our community."
"We'll play somewhere, and we'll be very open and transparent about our needs and our priorities as this moves forward," she said.
Big 12 adds TCU, Louiville, Cincy and WVU?
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/09/29/2206576/big-12-needs-to-expand-just-to.html
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/09/29/2206576/big-12-needs-to-expand-just-to.html
JackofVirginia
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:woohoo: Syracuse's chancellor wants to play some of their biggest ACC games in N.Y.C. because it's important to her constituency. "We want to be known as New York 's college team." Dream, dream, dream, and dream, not with Lavin at the helm.
chief blackjack
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there are other countries closer to syracuse than they are to manhattan.
beast of the east
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The Garden is still a big stage to sell to recruits - Syracuse knows how they can fade into obscurity in terms of the Northeast basketball consciousness - much like BC. If SJU and the Big East has any weight to block this, Syracuse will become just another upstate city dying a slow death.
If UConn, Rutgers, TCU, WVU, Louisville and Cincy are in the Big East 2 years from now I will be shocked.
It seems increasingly clear that what is left of the BE will be a baksetball-only conference made up almost entirely of Catholic schools. It would take something seismic (as in a BE/B12 merger) to avoid that outcome. It's possible that there will be a sort of second-tier BE football conference that doesn't really amount to much.
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We may know how committed the so-called football schools are after this weekend. On the basketball side you do not replace a Uconn, Pitt, Syracuse, UWV, Louisville. Even Villanova wants out. What guarantees are there that schools like Xavier or Dayton even want in? The Big East may have to merge with the A10 to be relevant in two years. Funny how the BE was caught asleep while the ACC becomes BIg East-North Divsion. The Big 12 is the strongest football conference in America and I doubt it folds. It has the luxury of just having to add 3 teams and they are set. No matter what I will always bleed redmen red and just hope we take some scalps in the next two years of all the traitors as a souvenir!
bball purist
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I still am in disbelief that. with Paul Taglibue as an advisor who supposedly knows the deal, that Swofford outflanked Marinatto. That being said, if the Beast can get even 2-4 strong basketball schools, that should be enough to keep at least nova in the fold. Getting Butler and Xavier in should protect the basketball teams of the conference.
But do not fret. Look at what recruits say about good basketball programs, and their perception of a program. Rodney Purvis' comments say it all:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basket...-s-Final-Four-run-impacted-i?urn=ncaab-wp5069
tom in salem
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Keep vanillanova in the fold?
I heard the AFC East is negotiating with them as we speak.
Interesting. Often I've read on this board that foremost among the boons that SJ has much to offer prospective recruits is the opportunity to play in the world's greatest arena, in front of the world's greatest fans, in the world's most exciting media market, in the world's greatest city. And here it turns out that the only things standing between NYC and basketball obscurity were Syracuse and Podunk. Sorry, did I say Podunk? I meant Pittsburgh obviously.