Re: The new BE

[Brett Pappas]

I agree with your feelings toward BC leaving versus a school like 
Syracuse. I would be interested to see if this could open the door for 
taking both Florida schools. The BE could take UL, UC and USF for 
all-sports and take Marquette and Depaul to the basketball side, and 
then take UCF for everything but basketball.

The benefits for doing this would be to give USF a travel partner so 
that olympic sports don't take such a hit when traveling to USF since 
they could then double dip and head over to UCF on the same trip. This 
also gives football a more schedule friendly 9 schools which allows 
everyone to have 4 home and 4 road games in conference.

Of course, if it were up to me then I would just add UCF as a full 
member and not invite Depaul. Nothing against Depaul but this new BE is 
going to be pretty complicated already with partial members like Notre 
Dame and non-football schools versus all-sports schools. The reason that 
this is unlikely is that the basketball members don't want the football 
members to outnumber them.

There is my 2 cents.
--Brett

jon breiner wrote:
> Well, with BC going to the ACC, I guess it is for sure UC is going to the new BE.  Who will join UL and UC?  I figure USF based on media reports, but would be interested in other thoughts?  How do you think the divisions would break down in bball?  I still think this will be the best basketball conference in the US.
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> As for fball, the talk lately has been to include more conferences in the BCS.  I read somewhere that if the BE is not part of the BCS, the BCS would no longer have the majority of Div I schools, so it seems "they" need the BE.  With Syracuse, Pitt, etc. the BCS inclusion can be justified, even if it is the "worst" of the included conferences.
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> So for me, BC leaving is not a huge surprise and does not bother me as much as if it had been Syracuse, for instance.
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> jon b