Villanova will decide its Big East football future in April
by UL is my hot hot sex on Dec 17, 2010 3:25 PM EST
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PrintVillanova President Fr. Peter Donohue via The Nova Blog:
To recap, we currently compete in the Big East Conference in all varsity sports with the exception of football where we are a member of the Colonial Athletic Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly "I-AA"). If we were to decide to join the Big East as a football member, it would require our transition to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly "I-A"). Since this is such a complex decision, we began a formal evaluation process in September 2010.
Timeframe
- January 2011: Continued community meetings, stakeholder dialogue, and research and analyses
- February 2011: Board of Trustees meeting; discussion of research findings to-date
- March 2011: Assessment of remaining research findings
- April 2011: Board of Trustees meeting; discussion of outstanding items; Board decision
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East Carolina? Really?
I haven’t even heard the argument for this. Probably something along the lines of “TV Market.”
There has been talk of ECU joining the Big East for a couple of years
They’re usually mentioned along with UCF as decent programs in decent markets. They’ve been pretty successful in C-USA since the last exodus to the Big East. They’re going bowling this year at 7-6 (Military Bowl vs. Maryland). They have a 50,000-seat stadium and they’ve averaged over 40,000 the last three years running.
"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"
... and most of that talk has been coming out of Greenville
East Carolina would really like to be in the Big East. It’s not at all clear why we’d want them. I mean, they’re not bad at football, but in they’re in a nothing of a TV market, and would be the fifth AQ-conference school in North Carolina. And the ACC is going to own the TV markets in VA and NC no matter what ECU does.
This strikes me as being a lot worse than picking up the fifth in Florida with UCF or the sixth in Texas with Houston (Memphis, which is terrible at football, is also a pretty bad idea).
But really, if ‘Nova doesn’t move up (or even if they do), I think I’d wait for a while on further expansion. It’s not clear if the Texas Ten will hold together. Or if a pretty good football program in a decent market will emerge from the eastern non-AQ conferences. And while the Big Ten has discussed going to a nine-game football schedule (and if they and/or the SEC and/or the ACC did, it would make going to ten schools and a nine-game schedule ourselves pretty imperative), they haven’t made that move yet (and the SEC and ACC haven’t formally discussed it).
On Memphis
Man we know what you mean. I loved watching us beat them down (I believe 56-0).
And on the Texas Ten, yeah, I totally agree. I don’t think these schools are really gonna like how UN FREAKING EVEN the revenue is. I mean come on OK ST, come on Kansas, come on Tech, I know that no one likes this plan but is doing this so the Big XII stays together.
Bilal Powell for Heisman!
Is this an ECU Blog or a Belarus Election?
My guess is some 20-something from ECU had some free time and voted 724 times on the poll above. ECU is choice No. 5 probably for next BE spot. First, Villanova says Yea or Nay, if they say Nay, its likely UCF due to market to get to 10. Then BE will hangout and see what happens until next BCS contract and TV contract, unless some outside events changes things, e.g., Big X (formerly Big XII) fails and they grab KAN and its special needs brother K ST. No offence to ECU short of BE going 16 ECU’s chances are slim due to no market, no BB, no media chache.
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