if american and conference usa are in bad shape then thebig east is the way togo.
This Big East doesn't have and never will have football. That conference is a basketball conference.
The Big 12 has only 16 members and needs two more to catch up with the B1G/18. Just saying! ;-)
Between Iowa State and WVU we can clearly compete in football…built in regional rivalry with WVU, Cincy, bring in Toledo… who says no?
There was a point in 2021 when it wasn't clear the Big 12 was going to make it and WVU could have ended up left out in the cold. Tires were kicked on a conference featuring WVU, Ohio, UConn, Army, Buffalo and a few others.
Curious as to “who” was kicking tires on this conference.
WVU in the event the Big 12 turned into the PAC 2 or something.
A lot of people forget the Big 12 was the one in the biggest danger because for years their inherent value was tied up in two schools: OU and Texas. Brett Yormark essentially saved the conference by going to market with the B12's TV rights long before they expired just so they had something in their back pocket they could point to in case sh*t hit the fan and they needed to recruit other schools.
There's going to be an excellent televised docuseries or book written about all of this one day and it's going to be fascinating. There was a point in the PAC 12's history when they literally had the press release document ready and the press conference backdrop banners already printed for introducing OU, Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State as their newest members. It all fell apart right at the 11th hour when ESPN decided to launch the Longhorn Network.