QUOTE(Limey Frog @ Jun 10 2010, 01:44 PM) [snapback]573852[/snapback]
The Big East has no unity, no cohesion and is even more unstable than the Big XII. The MWC, on the other hand, is built around a core of six institutions with historic and geographic ties that provide real cohesion. The guiding ethos is the quest for AQ status through improved football. BYU, Utah, TCU, and Boise constitute a group of four very strong football programs around which the conference can build. This group can remain stable while everything else is going to utter madness.
See the Pac 16 fall through and Utah get an invite West and how far that cohesion and loyalty lasts. As things stand now, I'd be generally opposed to jumping to the Big East. But loyalty is for suckers when it comes to college football. We should have learned that lesson well by now.
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We need to add Boise now and cast our football lot in permanently with these three other top 25 programs. Any other move would be suicide. Adding anyone but the Kansas schools and Boise would be a backward step for our conference.
I'm not opposed to adding ISU. I am opposed to adding Baylor. Call me a hypocrite ...