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Looks like, kind of, well lame. One big A with a star in it. They had all of that time to come up with a website and that is what they launch with. Strong Stable United and Competitive . All things we are not. I think Big City or Metro were better descriptors. All in to win (and get out) .

CUSA owns the Heart bowl so that is out. Hawaii to expensive (our cost projections just for airfare for the team and band 1,000,000) let Cusa pay it. (no one will go) Little Caesars would be a tough sell for a southern league and it sits right in the MAC foot print with the #1 pic I doubt they would want us.

Also I don't want to play the top team in CUSA, MAC, or SunBelt unless its our top team. We can only loose those games. A win is because we are better a loss means the whole conference is sucks. So no MWC#1 vers AAC#1. Also the AAC names is terrible AMC would have been better.

Lets talk what we can get. Here is the current 2013-14 Bowl slate. So what bowls are up for grabs? I would think any CUSA bowls are on the block. That being said how many do you want? Hawaii? Boise? I think not. How many tie in do we need? I would think as many as CUSA has so 5 primary and 2 alternates. Based on that we need to add the Military, Liberty(full time) and Bell. Local bowls no brainers not a lot of competition for those. That would give us Beefs vers USA, Military vers ACC, Bell vers MWC, Liberty vers SEC, BBVA vers SEC. Maybe some secondary arrangements. Not great bowls, but local enough for good turn outs. Hopefully we can worm our way in to some bigger bowls who don't want ACC number 7 and would be ok with AAC number 1. Bowl Location Date/Time TV Tickets Gildan New Mexico MWC vs. Pac-12 Albuquerque, NM University Stadium Sat., Dec. 21 2:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- MAACO Bowl Las Vegas MWC vs. Pac-12 Las Vegas, NV Sam Boyd Stadium Sat., Dec. 21 3:30 p.m. ET ABC --- Famous Idaho Potato MAC vs. MWC Boise, ID Bronco Stadium Sat., Dec. 21 5:30 p.m. ET ESPN --- R+L Carriers New Orleans C-USA vs. Sun Belt New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome Sat., Dec. 21 9:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- Beef 'O' Brady's American vs. C-USA St. Petersburg, FL Tropicana Field Mon., Dec. 23 2:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- GoDaddy.com MAC vs. Sun Belt Mobile, AL Ladd-Peebles Stadium TBA TBA --- Sheraton Hawaii C-USA vs. MWC Honolulu, HI Aloha Stadium Tues., Dec. 24 8:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- Little Caesars Pizza Big Ten vs. MAC Detroit, MI Ford Field Thu., Dec. 26 6:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- San Diego County CU Poinsettia Army vs. MWC San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium Thu., Dec. 26 9:30 p.m. ET ESPN --- Military ACC vs. C-USA Washington, DC RFK Stadium Fri., Dec. 27 2:30 p.m. ET ESPN --- Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas Big 12 vs. Big Ten Houston, TX Reliant Stadium Fri., Dec. 27 6:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- Kraft Fight Hunger BYU vs. Pac-12 San Francisco, CA AT&T Park Fri., Dec. 27 9:30 p.m. ET ESPN --- New Era Pinstripe American vs. Big 12 Bronx, NY Yankee Stadium Sat., Dec. 28 Time TBA ESPN --- Belk ACC vs. American Charlotte, NC Bank of America Stadium Sat., Dec. 28 3:20 p.m. ET ESPN --- Russell Athletic ACC vs. American Orlando, FL Florida Citrus Bowl Sat., Dec. 28 6:45 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Buffalo Wild Wings Big 12 vs. Big Ten Tempe, AZ Sun Devil Stadium Sat., Dec. 28 10:15 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Bell Helicopter Armed Forces MWC vs. Navy Fort Worth, TX Amon G. Carter Stadium Mon., Dec. 30 11:45 a.m. ET ESPN --- Franklin Amer. Mort. Music City ACC vs. SEC Nashville, TN LP Field Mon., Dec. 30 3:15 p.m. ET ESPN --- Valero Alamo Big 12 vs. Pac-12 San Antonio, TX Alamodome Mon., Dec. 30 6:45 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Bridgepoint Education Holiday Big 12 vs. Pac-12 San Diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium Mon., Dec. 30 10:15 p.m. ET ESPN --- AdvoCare V100 ACC vs. SEC Shreveport, LA Independence Stadium Tue., Dec. 31 12:30 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Hyundai Sun ACC vs. Pac-12 El Paso, TX Sun Bowl Tue., Dec. 31 2:00 p.m. ET CBS --- AutoZone Liberty C-USA vs. SEC Memphis, TN Liberty Bowl Tue., Dec. 31 4:00 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Chick-fil-A ACC vs. SEC Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome Tue., Dec. 31 8:00 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Heart of Dallas Big Ten vs. C-USA Dallas, TX Cotton Bowl Wed., Jan. 1 12:00 p.m. ET ESPNU --- Outback Big Ten vs. SEC Tampa, FL Raymond James Stadium Wed., Jan. 1 1:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- TaxSlayer.com Gator Big Ten vs. SEC Jacksonville, FL EverBank Field Wed., Jan. 1 Time TBA ESPN2 Buy Tickets Capital One Big Ten vs. SEC Orlando, FL Florida Citrus Bowl Wed., Jan. 1 Time TBA ABC Buy Tickets Rose Bowl Game BCS/Pac-12 #1 vs. BCS/Big Ten #1 Pasadena, CA Rose Bowl Wed., Jan. 1 5:00 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Tostitos Fiesta BCS/Big 12 #1 vs. BCS At-Large Glendale, AZ U. of Phoenix Stadium Wed., Jan. 1 8:30 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets Allstate Sugar BCS/SEC #1 vs. BCS At-Large New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome Thu., Jan. 2 8:30 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets AT&T Cotton Big 12 vs. SEC Arlington, TX Cowboys Stadium Fri., Jan. 3 7:30 p.m. ET FOX Buy Tickets Discover Orange BCS/ACC #1 vs. BCS At-Large Miami Gardens, FL Sun Life Stadium Fri., Jan. 3 8:00 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets BBVA Compass American vs. SEC Birmingham, AL Legion Field Sat., Jan. 4 1:00 p.m. ET ESPN --- BCS National Championship BCS #1 vs. BCS #2 Pasadena, CA Rose Bowl Mon., Jan. 6 8:30 p.m. ET ESPN Buy Tickets

Yea I know those guys from my years at the Sundome. I saw Jack last year at a USF game. He still in town. I was trying to get them to do a reunion show. I haven't heard from Lumpy /Sean but I think he is still around. Hope all is good with you Mike.

Kevin is right this is the line up we need to roll with East USF UCF UConn Cincy Temple Navy ECU Memphis West Houston SMU Boise State San Diego State Fresno State UNLV Air Force (or BYU) Tulane It would clearly place this new conference as the 6th best conference and would provide some good TV markets. Navy & Air Force for football only. Might want to look at New Mexico instead of Fresno as well. If Air Force says no take Fresno at football only. This could very easily work. The only wrinkle is baseball Boise and Smu don't have teams.

At the end of the day we still will have 9 all sport teams and 4 football that are the best of what is left from the Big 5 .That still has value to the networks. The B-ball schools are the ones long term that will get hurt. They are trading stabilty for money and prestige. The reality is football drives the bus and we have Willy T at the wheel.

The confrence that needs to worry is A10 they are going to get raided big time.

St Johns brought market NYC. Good for eyeballs.

On the football side it changes nothing if Boise and SDU want to go back to 800,000 a year for sports they can but even without the B-ball schools our contract will be better than that. Heck CUSA got 2 million. MWC has no markets. While we will take a hit it won't be the end of the world. It just comes down to who gets the auto b-ball bid, name and the NCAA credits. Now b-ball will take a hit but really Georgetown, Villinova, St Johns and Marqutte are the only b-ball schools worth much. The other 3 are no better than UCF. So we take a hit but we have 9 big market schools left to build on.

Looks like its going to be offical. http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/college/basketball/big_east_basketball_only_schools_c2PMii2vTg8twF80US3G6H These guys have been right on the money on internal Big East issues. So the next question is what happens now and who keeps the name.

Brian I'm shocked you don't know who I am. I'll give you a hint. Reaper.. As for brining Death Row back it would be tough. We were that good .

Their are still a couple of us old Death Row folks lurking on this board. We sure did cause alot of havoc in those days. By the way Mike was ok with us he was just responding from concerns from the conference.

I guess it fair to mention that we won the Sun Belt Conference in 1989 I believe and went to the tourney. Our next trip was an at large bid in 1990 or 1991.

If the proof is in the pudding then its interesting that their are 4 Big East teams of of 8 possible teams left in the NIT. That says alot about how the Big East got the shaft from the NCAA tourney.

Their seems to be a trend with the AD holding onto coaches till their contracts end. Right or wrong he is the one that has to look at the numbers and make the call.

A positive post from smazza! I almost fell out of my seat. What is this world coming to.

I just booked my room. GO BULLS

Something to keep in mind here that most people don't know is that the B'Ham/Papa Johns bowl is run by ESPN regional. Guess who we contract with to handle our maketing? If you guessed ESPN regional you get a gold star. With 7 wins we are a lock so to speck.

Sure they do when they don't have all the data. A very well done article.

That is correct. If we send another team outside our current agreements the confrence gets more money. This money wouldn't amount to much because it will be a bottom tier bowl.

Wasn't me I was a good boy this week. By the way I walked the lots for the Friday game great atmosphere. The students are really starting to pick up slack from previous years. The South lot seemed a little thin maybe the Friday game through some of the tail gaters off with work and all. See ya Saterday. Go bulls

Good call TCU is the only real option. Big city, new market, big airport. Great football.

TSA is not the issue. The Bucs are the issue when it comes to the field. TSA as gone out of its way over the years and is a big supporter of USF. The concern of TSA is for the safety of individuals when it comes to live animals on the filed. It is gets nixed for the field getting torn up it will be the Bucs not TSA who is responsible.

You don't run with a 2,500 pound animal he runs you. A Bull that size goes where he wants to. They generaly don't like loud noise and shy away from large groups. The problem is that you need to raise a Bull from birth to like people and stand the loud noises of a stadium. Baring that the whole thing could be a disaster. Although the first time someone gets gorged we would make national news. Other than that its a great idea.