AQ status and Big East Question

[redfisher78]

I hear all of this talk that the BE's AQ status will come up in 2013 I believe. Exactly what happens at this time. If they deem us not good enough does this go to an at large bid or does this have to go to another conference. Even though the Big East is down this year, we are no where near the other conferences that would be considered to fill our shoes. Do you give it to any of these conferences below, where the MAJORITY of the teams are worse then even our last place team? Especially if you bring TCU into the fold

BIG EAST

 

  37  West Virginia     

  41  Pittsburgh         

  51  Syracuse           

  59  South Florida       

  69  Louisville       

  72  Connecticut       

  75  Cincinnati         

  87  Rutgers

Mountain West

  3  TCU                 

  27  Utah               

  40  Air Force         

  44  San Diego State     

  67  BYU                 

124  Colorado State     

131  Wyoming             

134  UNLV               

173  New Mexico 

WAC

  7  Boise State         

  22  Nevada             

  30  Hawaii             

  64  Fresno State       

  86  Louisiana Tech     

  92  Idaho             

104  Utah State       

155  San Jose State     

168  New Mexico State

Conf USA

  50  Central Florida     

  54  Tulsa             

  65  East Carolina     

  66  Southern Miss     

  79  SMU             

  82  Houston     

114  Marshall           

116  UAB                 

117  UTEP               

126  Tulane             

141  Rice               

182  Memphis

[gobulls83]

Even though the Big East is down this year, we are no where near the other conferences that would be considered to fill our shoes. Do you give it to any of these conferences below, where the MAJORITY of the teams are worse then even our last place team?

It is not a question of "giving" the Big East's BCS status to some other conference. I have never seen anybody except misinformed fans and a few shortsighted columnists claim that the Big East has ever been in danger of losing its BCS bid. Can you show me where any person with any sort of authority on the matter has said it is a possibility? At all?

There was plenty of talk last year about extending a seventh BCS bid to the Mountain West Conference, but again, nobody worthwhile said that had anything to do with the Big East.

[usf97]

I don't see anyway BE would ever lose AQ. People like to talk of it when the league has down years.....yet the AQ is about the makeup of the WHOLE league.

As a whole.....our bottom teams probably do as much for us as our top teams. That is what is holding the MWC back. For all that TCU does.....they don't make up for UNLV or New Mexico.

Plus the politics of it would be insane.....the BCS already gets heat from Orin Hatch and a few others.....now you want to take AQ status AWAY from teams in BIG Northeastern Markets....?!?

It will never happen.

[Jihme]

isn't the formula based on multiple years of results, ie the league has been good the past 4 years, so that helps us?

[South_Florida_Flip]

isn't the formula based on multiple years of results, ie the league has been good the past 4 years, so that helps us?

Yes

[redfisher78]

Yeah, just seems like it is something for the talking heads to bring up. Fans of other conferences pile on, but they dont ever see these numbers. We are a very balanced conferences which is good for the future of the league, just need a couple more teams and a few to get stronger over the coming years.

[gobulls83]

isn't the formula based on multiple years of results, ie the league has been good the past 4 years, so that helps us?

That formula, which I'm not sure is even use anymore, is/was only for determining if a conference gets offered BCS status. It was never stated by anyone, as far as I know, that it would be used to strip any of the other six conferences of their status.

People **** on the Big East nationwide all the time, and the Big East is always the comparison used by proponents of adding a seventh auto-bid conference, so it's easy to think the Big East has been in danger of this, but again, I've never seen anything official that suggests the Big East has anything to worry about it.

Like The Brown Bull of Cooley said, the potential political ramifications alone are enough to keep the Big East from being booted.

[DELdaBull]

Not to mention most years we are AHEAD of the ACC. :

They have a good PR staff.  Big East, not so much :-[

[Apis Bull]

Not to mention most years we are AHEAD of the ACC. :

They have a good PR staff.  Big East, not so much :-[

It's because the ACC has marque names; Miami, FSU, and VaTech