Revamped Big East

Notwithstanding the first few paragraphs of the Complaint I will be surprised if the action is not removed to Federal Court as a result of diversity of the parties.

I do not practice in Federal Court so I would appreciate one of the many attorneys that frequent the site to comment whether my memory of Fed Jur class many years ago is accurate. Thanks.
 
Notwithstanding the first few paragraphs of the Complaint I will be surprised if the action is not removed to Federal Court as a result of diversity of the parties.

I do not practice in Federal Court so I would appreciate one of the many attorneys that frequent the site to comment whether my memory of Fed Jur class many years ago is accurate. Thanks.
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Each Big East school should, in turn, sue WVU in local state courts using the BS terminology. By the time it gets settled, WVU will have spent 27 months waiting in purgatory just to pay up in the end for breach of contract with the BE.

What is funny is that now it is the fault of the basketball schools that the football schools suck!
 
 markcvieraMark Viera





Big East presidents voted to extend invitations to football and nonfootball members.

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markcviera Mark Viera
Big East Commissioner John Marinatto declined to say what schools, or how many, would be added. The goal is to get to 12 football schools.

markcviera Mark Viera
Big East presidents voted to extend invitations to football and nonfootball members.
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Probably the reported schools in UCF, SMU and Houston for all sports and AFA, BSU, Navy for football only.

The talk right now is BYU (football only?) Memphis or Temple for the last spot.
 
AdamZagoria Adam Zagoria
Marinatto says Big East intends to enforce 27-month waiting period on West Virginia. 

PeteThamelNYT Pete Thamel
Big East announcement appears to mean that at least UCF, Houston and SMU are on the way. Those were the locks.
 
markcviera Mark Viera
Big East Commissioner John Marinatto declined to say what schools, or how many, would be added. The goal is to get to 12 football schools.

markcviera Mark Viera
Big East presidents voted to extend invitations to football and nonfootball members.
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Probably the reported schools in UCF, SMU and Houston for all sports and AFA, BSU, Navy for football only.

The talk right now is BYU (football only?) Memphis or Temple for the last spot.
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He said non football schools.
That rules out every school you just mentioned.
 
 markcvieraMark Viera





Should have written: voted to add football-only and all-sports members. But could beef up basketball presence after reaching 12 in football.

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markcviera Mark Viera
Big East Commissioner John Marinatto declined to say what schools, or how many, would be added. The goal is to get to 12 football schools.

markcviera Mark Viera
Big East presidents voted to extend invitations to football and nonfootball members.
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Probably the reported schools in UCF, SMU and Houston for all sports and AFA, BSU, Navy for football only.

The talk right now is BYU (football only?) Memphis or Temple for the last spot.
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He said non football schools.
That rules out every school you just mentioned.
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He miswrote.

McMurphyCBS Brett McMurphy
Reports of Big East extending "non-football memberships" inaccurate. They will offer invites to schools for football-only & all-sports 
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Its going to be a football team. Weather its an allsport or football only is the only ? ,

AdamZagoria Adam Zagoria
Marinatto also says presidents did not discuss a potential 7th football school to replace WVU, but would do so down the road.
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Some other notes:

AdamZagoria Adam Zagoria
Marinatto says strictly speaking PItt, Cuse and WVU can't leave until June 30, 2014, meaning 2014 FB season & 14-15 BB season.

AdamZagoria Adam Zagoria
Marinatto says it was a unanimous 13-0 vote to add "specific institutions." Cuse, PItt and WVU no longer allowed to vote.
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 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33072149

You have to assume they're being invited with foreknowledge that they are going to accept.

Now add Temple and Memphis, or two equivalently good basketball schools and we're all set. Job 1 was saving the conference as a conference, and the football moves should do that. Job 2 is patching over the loss of Pitt, Cuse and WVU on the basketball side. These moves certainly do NOT do that, and two high-end basketball programs are needed to finish the job.

If not Memphis and Temple, how about Gonzaga and Butler? :silly: 
 
 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33072149

You have to assume they're being invited with foreknowledge that they are going to accept.

Now add Temple and Memphis, or two equivalently good basketball schools and we're all set. Job 1 was saving the conference as a conference, and the football moves should do that. Job 2 is patching over the loss of Pitt, Cuse and WVU on the basketball side. These moves certainly do NOT do that, and two high-end basketball programs are needed to finish the job.

If not Memphis and Temple, how about Gonzaga and Butler? :silly: 
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I think that once we add all 6 of these schools, we should go to 18 in bball and add Temple and Memphis, but at that point I'd be more happy with Xavier and another to bolster the bball side of things. Not sure who until everything shakes out. Butler doesnt do much for me though. 

IMO, they are going to want to strengthen the basketball presence after solidifying the football side a bit. Bball in the northeast still has a big market, and the league is going to want to dominate the bball equation. Further more I'd love for our league to add Temple and Memphis just to annoy the ACC that we're still a bball power and keeping our markets are.
 
 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33072149

You have to assume they're being invited with foreknowledge that they are going to accept.

Now add Temple and Memphis, or two equivalently good basketball schools and we're all set. Job 1 was saving the conference as a conference, and the football moves should do that. Job 2 is patching over the loss of Pitt, Cuse and WVU on the basketball side. These moves certainly do NOT do that, and two high-end basketball programs are needed to finish the job.

If not Memphis and Temple, how about Gonzaga and Butler? :silly: 
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I think that once we add all 6 of these schools, we should go to 18 in bball and add Temple and Memphis, but at that point I'd be more happy with Xavier and another to bolster the bball side of things. Not sure who until everything shakes out. Butler doesnt do much for me though. 

IMO, they are going to want to strengthen the basketball presence after solidifying the football side a bit. Bball in the northeast still has a big market, and the league is going to want to dominate the bball equation. Further more I'd love for our league to add Temple and Memphis just to annoy the ACC that we're still a bball power and keeping our markets are.
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If we want to annoy the ACC we invite Duke and Wake Forest
 
Theres a rumor out there that BE is going to go 14-18. My guess is they add Temple and Memphis all sports and BYU or some other team to play west for football only. If not Temple then ECU or Southern Mississippi for football only and Xavier(?) for non-football can be in play. It should get really interesting.
 
 PeteThamelNYTPete Thamel





After Big East gets to 12, it will consider the 14/18 notion. Hoops schools have a huge say and want additions.

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 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33072149

You have to assume they're being invited with foreknowledge that they are going to accept.

Now add Temple and Memphis, or two equivalently good basketball schools and we're all set. Job 1 was saving the conference as a conference, and the football moves should do that. Job 2 is patching over the loss of Pitt, Cuse and WVU on the basketball side. These moves certainly do NOT do that, and two high-end basketball programs are needed to finish the job.

If not Memphis and Temple, how about Gonzaga and Butler? :silly: 
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I think that once we add all 6 of these schools, we should go to 18 in bball and add Temple and Memphis, but at that point I'd be more happy with Xavier and another to bolster the bball side of things. Not sure who until everything shakes out. Butler doesnt do much for me though. 

IMO, they are going to want to strengthen the basketball presence after solidifying the football side a bit. Bball in the northeast still has a big market, and the league is going to want to dominate the bball equation. Further more I'd love for our league to add Temple and Memphis just to annoy the ACC that we're still a bball power and keeping our markets are.
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If we want to annoy the ACC we invite Duke and Wake Forest
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I'm all for it if I thought they'd make a move like that...which they won't. They don't offer ACC football anything though, but the ACC is smart enough to respect their basketball league.
 
 The BEast should invite Xavier.
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Xavier should certainly be in the conversation once we get to 12 football schools. This is a bball league as well and we should certainly make some big time bball additions to get to 18. Strength in numbers. The football schools know that a powerful basketball league is also in their best interest for marketing and tv rights. Very important.
 
Can someone please tell me what SMU, Houston, Air Force, etc are doing in THE BIG EAST!!!??? Seriously? Bring in some East coast teams. It seems that the BE is falling apart at the seams, and the commish is grabbing at straws to keep it together. They should go back to being what they started as, a basketball first school. There is so much talent in the bball schools, that we can survive. The football schools are, for the most part, non entities on the national stage. SU, WVU and PITT leave the BE, so what. Dont let the door hit you...
 
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