Expansion Candidates

[deathrow95]

  With all of this talk about about possible Big East expansion now is the time to look at the possible candidates.  At this point lets assume no BCS team or Notre Dame will switch to the Big East.  So that leaves us non BCS schools. We only need football playing schools at this time.  Last time expansion happened the Big East looked at CUSA and that very well may happen again but I will include other schools.  I'm going to break this thread into 5 threads 1) will be the candidates 2) will be the academics and prestige at those schools 3) will be age, size and market 4)facilities 5)will be athletics. 

The Candidates

University of Houston

Rice University

Southern Methodist University (SMU)

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Tulane University

University of Tulsa

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

University of Central Florida (UCF)

East Carolina University (ECU)

Marshall University

University of Memphis

University of Southern Mississippi (USM)

University at Buffalo

Temple *

Texas Christian University