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Big East expansion ’
Jul 1st, 2011 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment
With the Big East looking at adding a 10th football program to join, following TCU, there have been a number of teams mentioned. Villanova, an FCS program, was slated to join if they could get everything organized on their end and chose to upgrade. Other schools in the mix included UCF, thought by many as [...]
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Nov 29th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
It’s a move that has been in the works for many months now, but it appears that TCU has finally received a formal invitation to join the Big East as the 17th member and 9th for football and accepted. No timetable has been set for their departure from the Mountain West conference. The move will [...]
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Nov 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Editorial, Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
State of the WAC – Part 2:What Else Could Possibly Go Wrong? The quick answer: EVERYTHING. As we’ve seen in every other instance of conference realignment, there is always the impending “trickle down”. When one conference at the top of the pecking order makes a move, the next conference below follows and so on. For the [...]
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Nov 2nd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
So now the real fun begins. It took a few decades, but the Big East is finally grasping that when you’re the little fish, it’s time to grow. The Big East released a statement from their meetings today that they will indeed look to expand to a likely number of 10 football schools. The announcement [...]
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Sep 16th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Editorial, Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades
If you haven’t heard the rumblings of late, the Big East has reached out to FCS football school, Villanova, about joining the conference as it’s 9th member. Villanova has no stadium capable of FBS level football. They could pay to lease out the new Philadelphia MLS stadium in the city that seats 18,500, and pay [...]
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Sep 10th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Villanova has officially been invited to the Big East for football, according to reports. All Villanova has to do is say “yes” and they’ll be the ninth member. The invitation to Villanova makes sense for a number of reasons, but also could draw some questioning. Villanova makes sense as they are already a member of [...]
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Aug 2nd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Matt Jones of KentuckySportsRadio and MyCN2 tweeted that Memphis to the Big East could happen. No facts to back anything up just yet, but with the Big East meetings happening right now, the timing would be right for some fire to this smoke. At this time, no expansion moves have been confirmed. With so many [...]
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Jul 25th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Things have been slow on the conference realignment front of late, a much needed break after all the Big Ten/Pac-10/Big 12/MWC moves from last month. But Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney has recently been speaking about the New York market and the importance of the D.C. to Boston corridor. He isn’t saying that anything is [...]
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Jun 13th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big 12 Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
It started with some flirtation by Nebraska and Missouri with the Big Ten. And when step-brother, Nebraska, seemed like they could actually leave the Big 12, big brother Texas started to make some noise…by publicly considering an offer by the Pac-10 to join, a scenario that would allow them to bring their immediate siblings, Texas [...]
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Jun 11th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
The Big East school presidents have been sitting back east and watching all that is happening in the west. But the movement that started on the west coast could soon enough make it all the way back east. With the University of Colorado officially in the Pac-10 and Nebraska expected to be in the Big [...]
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