AP Source: Big East to Invite Boise St, 3 Others

Harry · October 14, 2011

The Big East plans to invite Boise State, Air Force and Navy as football-only members, and Central Florida to compete in all sports, after it doubles the exit fee for current members to $10 million.

An official in the Big East, speaking on condition of anonymity because the conference had not authorized anyone to speak publicly about its plans, told The Associated Press the invites could go out as soon as next week, but could take longer.

The Big East is still considering adding Temple, and UCF's Conference USA rivals SMU and Houston. Temple, which was kicked out of the Big East in 2005, plays football in the Mid-American Conference.

The Texas schools would replace the presence in the state the Big East thought it was going to have with TCU, and help make the move to the Big East more palatable to Boise State.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/ap-source-big-east-invite-boise-st-14740487

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TIgreen01 · October 14, 2011

I've seen and heard it all day, but I just cannot get over Boise St. to the Big East. Up is down, down is up, west is EAST??...crazy times.

ESPN rules the world. At some point, someone needs to neuter them.

Edited October 14, 2011 by TIgreen01

cwb · October 14, 2011

The Big East plans to invite Boise State, Air Force and Navy as football-only members, and Central Florida to compete in all sports, after it doubles the exit fee for current members to $10 million.

An official in the Big East, speaking on condition of anonymity because the conference had not authorized anyone to speak publicly about its plans, told The Associated Press the invites could go out as soon as next week, but could take longer.

The Big East is still considering adding Temple, and UCF's Conference USA rivals SMU and Houston. Temple, which was kicked out of the Big East in 2005, plays football in the Mid-American Conference.

The Texas schools would replace the presence in the state the Big East thought it was going to have with TCU, and help make the move to the Big East more palatable to Boise State.

http://abcnews.go.co...ise-st-14740487

Do people actually want stuff leaked, or is there no one left on the planet who can keep his/her mouth shut?

foutsrouts · October 14, 2011

Assuming Big East stability (LOL), it looks like it's coming down to two teams out of Houston, smu, Temple, and possibly ECU to get them to their magic number of 12. This is getting strange. Geography means virtually nothing anymore.

yyz28 · October 14, 2011

They should just rename it the Big Region-Neutral.

mgfan · October 15, 2011

what happens when fiu leaves for cusa.... the sunbelt just continues to get weaker

Green Mean · October 15, 2011

what happens when fiu leaves for cusa.... the sunbelt just continues to get weaker

I don't think it's set that they'll move to CUSA. They don't HAVE to cover every regions or states. The CUSA/MWC alliance is big enough that they don't really need to add any teams even if they happen to lose some teams.