Originally Posted by
johnb
We've discussed this before, but do people have suggestions that could lift the Big East out of the doldrums.
I could imagine a scenario where they add 4 southern schools that have football teams to go along with tcu. possibilities include Memphis, smu, tulane, and tulsa, as well as Georgia tech and Maryland. none of those is as good a fit as the teams they lost to the acc, but 12 football teams allow for a conference championship and tv contract. admittedly, none of those possible teams is much of a national draw or football power, but it can be nice to have some doormats If they're aiming to have a team competing for the bcs championship. obviously, that makes the bball schedule almost impossible, but at least the handful of southern teams could always play each other twice and then play a few of the east coast teams once and then get beaten in their huge tournament.