BYU Will Not Join The Big East
by Mike Rutherford on Nov 23, 2011 10:54 AM EST
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PrintFreeze. Somebody bring me back some money please.
Brigham Young won't be part of the Big East's westward expansion.
Negotiations between the rebuilding conference and BYU have broken off, a person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press. The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the conference and school have not been making their talks public.
"BYU to the Big East is dead. It's not going to happen," the person said.
BYU athletic department spokesman Brett Pyne said in an email that school officials declined a request for comment.
The Big East was trying to add BYU as part of its plan to become a 12-team football league.
The deal-breaker was television rights. The person says BYU wanted to retain the rights to its home football games and the league could not agree to that.
No other school in a major conference has such a deal.
I got a million ways to get it. Choose one.
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this is me just absolutely shocked.
Look at me. Look at my face. Shocked this realignment stuff didn’t work out.
by Justin Gingey Smith on Nov 23, 2011 11:37 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I guess BYU thought they were better than Texas...
To be able to get the deal that even Texas can’t!
or they thought the Big East was so weak we'd let them get away with it.
Either way: FU2, BYU.
"...and the present, for us, is something that we really look forward to."
- Rick Pitino
After a period of injury related stories
I welcome realignment talk. Just as long as he injury stories end.
Slightly less interesting than Brian Brohm's sleeveless shirt.
Sinking Ship I tell ya
I hope TJ has a backup plan because the Big East needs to bring in someone with a little clout besides Boise St. Otherwise I say screw it and find us a home elsewhere I don’t think this is going to pan out well. They are now slotting San Diego St. Aztecs for membership in favor of BYU.
Located in Miami, Florida
by The White Mandingo on Nov 23, 2011 12:20 PM EST reply actions
Well, we've got 2 years to double our fanbase so we can get to bowls in the new system they're proposing anyways.
Should we be canvasing or something?
by James Sutherland on Nov 23, 2011 12:42 PM EST reply actions
Bring it back
Now double your money and make a stack.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Go Cards, Pitt opponent (I can’t say it), and Syracuse or UConn; Cards take the BCS while we still can.
by Slickvic621 on Nov 23, 2011 2:17 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I hope that the new system comes along, then quite a bit of this becomes moot.
Louisville Cardinals
Governors Cup Champions 2011-3011
this is why i want out of the big east
i don’t care if it supposedly will make the conference stronger (and by the way, that’s using this year’s numbers. there is no proof that any of the new additions will sustain their current level of success). right now it looks like the conference is taking anyone and everyone with a pulse and it doesn’t matter where they are. never mind that there is help east of the ohio river that are not under any consideration. the big east has NO plan at all. they have been purely reactionary since 2003 when we came in. i don’t think it is worth it to stay in a conference which has no clue as well as being one with 4 different interests now (all sports, mainly basketball, mainly football, notre dame).
i will deal with bevo drama because at least in that conference, take away one school and all the rest in the conference are on the same page. in a question of who or what would i rather deal with, a conference which has no clue, or a conference that is this close to telling texas to go screw itself so they go independent voluntarily, i’ll take the latter everyday. i at least know what the big 12 is doing. can’t really say the same for the big east. everyone would have been better off if the football side ceased to exist.
Louisville
will be taken by the Big 12. I personally think the Big 12 prefers Louisville over West Virginia, but took West Virginia first in the (extremely) off chance that the SEC decides to expand to 16 and could possibly take West Virginia (whereas Kentucky would likely block Louisville.) I don’t think the Big 12 would have taken WVU if they didn’t have a plan to add at least 1 if not 2 other eastern teams. (i.e. Louisville and hopefully Cincinnati, thought Rutgers has been mentioned.)
I want you guys with us in the Big 12. All of our historic rivals are now in the ACC, and having Louisville and WVU stick together would be good for both programs, imo.
That being said, I don’t hate Louisville like many WVU fans do and like many UL fans hate us. I have family in the city that are fans, and I always enjoy the game and have tremendous respect for the program and coach.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Nov 23, 2011 5:07 PM EST up reply actions
i think i was one of two louisville fans who did not resent wvu for jumping to the b12 over us
i put the blame on pitt and syracuse personally. plus i don’t think that chinless addison mitchell mcconnell (native of alabama) should have gotten involved. same with manchin and rockefeller too. so what i hope is that the rumors are true and the acc wants 16 and takes south florida and rutgers/uconn so that the big east football is well and truely moot and we and cincy can move to the big 12.
i actually like wvu right behind cincy (shock!). you guys are fun to hate ;D. and please please PLEASE put a pounding on pitt friday.
How could we blame them jumping
when it’s exactly what we wanted to do?
"...and the present, for us, is something that we really look forward to."
- Rick Pitino
How can we? Easy!
Maybe not logical, but easy.
by Carolina Cardinal on Nov 24, 2011 8:07 AM EST up reply actions
Haha
Again, I will maintain that Louisville was the preferred choice, but that WVU was taken before the SEC could remote chance expand to 16 and grab them.
I have no doubt in my mind that Louisville is Big 12 bound after next season if not before. Orangebloods (I know, not the best source) has posted an article about rumors that expansion has been renewed in the Big 12 with candidates being the ville, Cincy, Rutgers, and BYU. How true is this? God knows. But Louisville is BigXII bound one way or another.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Nov 24, 2011 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
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