Crappy just got crappier: Big East Not Just East Anymore

So basically the good teams in the Big East will be UConn and BSU.  Houston and SMU will be competitive until larger schools get around to highering away any successful coaches hey have.  

What a joke of a conference.  No geographical footprint, no philosophy of any sort, and crappy football schools.  the MWC/C-USA merger is more worthy of an autobid than this. 

At this point I say lets get ND into a conference and split the B12 up.  Full steam ahead for 4 super conferences and we can split away from the rest of D-I ball.  MWC/C-USA can be our new D-II cupcakes.  

So we play a BCS conference school next year when Air Force comes to town!

Our schedule just got so much more difficult on paper.... if that paper says "BCS Conference opponent" and not "Big East opponent"

Can't wait for Boise State and Air Force to turn down the Big [East].   Their commissioner looks almost as incompetent as Dan Beebe did in the last 2 years ago before getting shitcanned.

Boise lives and dies on the one and done apparoach to major college football.  If they play VT or Georgia or some other major conference school to start the year when teams are really sure what they have yet, BSU can win and them dominate their loserville conference.  If they had to play Texas, OU, OSU, Kansas St and Missouri every year, they'd never go undefeated.

Boise couldn't handle big boy football more than twice a year maybe three times and certainly not week-in week-out.  They'd die in the PAC-12 (where they belong) or the Big XII.  They would feast on Indiana and Minnesota, but they would never be able to play a schedule that included Wisconsin, Michigan, OSU and Nebraska every year.

They like the 'big fish in a small pond' scenario.

are so in for second-rate or mismanaged conferences these days.  Clearly BE had to add more schools or get decimated further.  BSU is geographically questionable but BE needs the money and BSU needs the stage, such as it is.

I thought I heard Air Force and Navy were going to say no after Army backed out of the picture, though. THey were talking about it on ESPN a few weeks ago it seems. Also, the Texas schools they're inviting are in the process of joining with the MWC right now. Not likely they'll jump ship to a conference that wont make them any more money than they already do, but the Big Something Or Other has nothing to lose by trying. I know, I know.. "Automatic qualifier." These little schools are smart enough to stay in a little conference and keep winning. If they start playing Cincy, Rutgers, USF, and UConn then their 12 win seasons will start becoming 6 win seasons. They're also talking about adding BYU who just went "independant", East Carolina (another school who might accept), Memphis, and Temple. This is weird because it looks like Notre Dame is working behind the scenes to have enough teams to play basketball against. This is going to be a bad conference unless Boise says yes to the automatic Bowl Bid.

Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette and the other Big East schools that don't have football are thinking.  Losing 2 of the better bball schools (Pitt and Syracuse) and probably another really good bball school as well (Louisville or WVU to the Big 12).  Then the Big East decides to invite a bunch of mid-majors in football that for the most part are pretty bad basketball schools.

if I'm the BCS commissioners, I'm looking through the fine print for a way to not give them an autobid.  It won't matter in a few years, but i'd be trying to not let them in next year.  Get ready for 8-4 navy in the orange bowl.