I apologize in advance that this follows my prior RIP post.:-(
The last few years Big East Football has been an almost comical revolving door. Some teams have been looted and others thought twice. Boise State even left before it began. The Big East from the start also had basketball only members.
Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, Seton Hall, Villanova, Marquette and DePaul all basketball powers will keep the Big East Name.
The new "Not The Big East" conference will consist next season of Connecticut (only original member), South Florida, Cincinnati, Temple (member, left once and coming back), Rutgers and Louisville, along with incoming members Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston.
Then Rutgers will go to the Big Ten and Louisville to the ACC. Tulane and East Carolina are coming in 2014, and Navy in 2015.
Miami, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Boston College all once belonged to the Big East.
Paul in PA
I suspect that ACC and Big 12 will be next to fall. The vision I have of the future of NCAA football will be 4 "super conferences" made up of 16 teams with the SEC, Big 10, Pac 12 surviving, and the best of what's left of the Big 12, Big East, and ACC merging into one conference.
The Big 10 is supposedly after UNC and Virginia to complete their 16 teams. The SEC blackballs teams within states they already represent, so they will probably take NC State and Virginia Tech. The Pac 12 wants Oklahoma and Texas, which would mean the death of the Big 12. Then, you'll have Miami, FSU, OK State, West Virginia, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Kansas and Kansas State, and bunch of other teams without a home ... which I suspect will have to make up some kind of regionally bizarre conference.
