bullcocky101

Create a facebook event and have everyone invite everyone they know...get the whole USF community involved and the chances of making this happen go up lol.

We are 170 and behing Cincy and Louisville academically...that's what we should work on...

30% of their revenue comes from STUDENT funds!!! Under this argument, I think the fans (students) should have a pretty dam big say in athletics. If I were a current student I would be pissed that my tuition keeps going up for this crap.

It seems TV market is a key driver behind these moves but does it matter if no one is interested in the school's teams? Take Temple for example, they reside in the 4th largest TV market but have only 4,600 students and a plethora of other big league sports teams. Why would anyone care?

Exactly, teams in small places like: Athens,Ga, Gainesville Fl., College Station Tx., Stillwater OK, seem to draw in a bigger viewing audience than a Tample or Tulane would in a big market...in big cities college sports seem to get overlooked.

Tulane has no following, that is LSU country.

Not pleased with them as a addition, but what can the BE do?

Maybe the following will grow with them in a "better" conference? At least in basketball it will be better for them.

Greenville NC is tiny, how does this help with tv negotiations?

The next move would be to add a western team such as Fresno. Conference need to get VCU in basketball also.

is Tulane all that much worse than Rutgers...academically they are similar and they are in a big market.

Now that we are in a mid-major conference, we will be a stepping stone school...any coach that comes in here and has any kind of success will bolt for the first taker for the bigger conferences. This is why mid-majors don't usually have prolonged sucess. I think Doug knew we were going to be in this situation long before we did and that played into him locking down Skip so that we wouldn't get the rep. of being that stepping-stone. That is one rep. that is hard to lose.

Tulane is building a new 30,000 seat stadium on campus...looks alot like UCF's but smaller.

The only people who are still paying attention and care at this point are the masachists. Hello fellow masachists! I wonder what kick to the balls we will receive today...oh Tulane and ECU joined the conference you say. This one's for all of us >>>

We're going to miss Nash this year.

Nash was only slightly better than Brock...we are going to miss Ron Anderson more than anything.

They are inceredibly athletic and are lacking AC who is a difference maker...just can't shoot worth crap and lack size.

Msybe Stetson will be our rival?

They can't stream the broadcast on 98.7!?!? WTF

Basically Skip got what you are describing. He makes about 2 million a year, but USF has an out, that it can buy out years at just 500 thousand a year. Imagine what it would be like USF had to pay the whole balance on Skip's contract in termination. Then there would be no talk of a coaching change right now.

I want to get paid 500K to do nothing as a reward for sucking at my job...

All of this stuff used to concern me but Skippy's destruction of the program makes it to where none of this matters. We were in a downward spiral when he was hired in 2010, we just did not know it yet.

Disagree about the downward spiral back when Skip was hired, Leavitt might not have been the best coach but he made us what we were.

Agree about how Skippy has destroyed this program... even if he rights the ship in two years or so and gets us back to where we were under Leavitt, he should still be fired.

We didn't go into a downward "spiral" when Skip was hired. In fact we had 3 of our most notable ooc wins with him. The "spiral" would have started with the 5th game of his 2nd year here .... and for God's sake, please stop with the "destroyed the program" melodramatics. It makes those that spew that sound ridiculous ...

If on the field performance is a factor in re-alignment...he may have kept us from the big boy table and the money it brings. So he may have not "desroyed" the program, but "permanently injured" is still on the table.

Why would they disband it? What's the benefit? They'd risk losing the Big East name along with any contracts associated with said league (MSG BE Tournament agreement). They'd also likely get less in their TV contract then if it were negotiated with Temple, Louisville/UConn, Memphis, etc.... Just doesn't make any sense to me for them to do that.

Could they just cut football out of the BE and keep the name/ MSG connection?

On the bright side, at least another team will not get to celebrate another conference championship on our field this year...that has been painful the last couple of years.

I would think they would want to keep Memphis, Temple, UCF, SMU, and us because we are good basketball schools...maybe the incoming all sports schools can be Big East for all except football?

If it's any consolation, Southern Miss was ranked at the beginning of the season and they didn't win a game...

Nvm, they received votes in the coaches poll

If it's any consolation, Southern Miss was ranked at the beginning of the season and they didn't win a game...

Could we petition to remain in the BE in basketball and play football in C-DOA? I don't want to lose the basketball progress we are making (its the only thing we have left) and an A-10 remaining BE conference should be exciting!

yuk, the Bowden boys were terrible...come to think of it most sons of former great coaches are terrible.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but what about the TV negotiations for next year and the following few years. As per Big East by laws, all of the defecting teams have to wait a few years before jumping ship unless some kind of settlement is reached (BE lets them off the hook). How would we secure a TV deal if half of the teams are just waiting to leave the conference? Will we likely not have a tv deal next year if the BE stays together?