HUT-Frog
New Member
THREE ALL-SPORTS ADDITIONS
1. Central Florida -- (partner to South Florida)
2. Houston -- (partner to TCU)
3. Temple -- (concession to Rutgers, WVa.)
Now I have 10 football and 18 basketball schools.
Basketball scheduling
-- 18 conference games
-- Round-robin
-- Each school plays one tied-in opponent twice (home-and-home)
-- Ties: TCU-Houston; Marquette-De Paul; Cincy-Louisville; UCF-USF; ND-UConn; Villanova-Georgetown; Rutgers-Temple; St. John's-Seton Hall; Providence-West Virginia.
** If Notre Dame left, Xavier or Butler would get invite. UConn home-and-home would be with WVa, Providence would get newest member.
FOOTBALL-ONLY ADDITIONS
With previous workings between BE and A-10, we can do some things again (and with other conferences). We already owe A-10 for Temple.
1. Boise State -- (WAC would love to have them back for hoops)
2. Air Force -- (WAC for hoops)
3. Memphis -- (Brings Liberty Bowl; hoops moves to A-10)
4. Navy -- (hoops stays in Colonial)
**Option to split Army/Navy as one membership, playing half-schedules; but not preferred option.
Football Divisions
EAST -- Central Florida, Connecticut, Navy, Rutgers, South Florida, Temple, West Virginia.
WEST -- Air Force, Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, TCU.
Football scheduling -- Six intra-divisional games; two cross-over games.
** A third cross-over game could be instuted (nine-game conference schedule) if membership so desired.
Football championship -- Rotating sites, preferably not more than two (Memphis and Philadelphia), definitely no more than three.
** If there were need to go to 16 teams, next two candidates would be East Carolina (east) and Southern Miss (west).
(Personally, I would kind of lean to SMU over USM; but it is more likely that USM would be willing to move basketball to another conference than would SMU.)
ANCILLARY ISSUES
-- Pitt and Syracuse could buy out a year early, by doubling their exit fees to $10M each -- payable in full before departure. Also, must agree to two non-conference games for 2013 season against Big East teams (unless there are not enough teams that want to schedule them), and two basketball games at Big East schools in 2013 season. That money distributed to members to add additional funding until end of TV contract.
-- Encourage Notre Dame to schedule at least one Big East football member per year. (Could include neutral-site games that ND likes to schedule.)
-- Increase exit fees to $15M for all-sports, $10M for football-only and $5M for non-football with two years notice; increases 50% for one-year notice. Notre Dame would be set as at football-only rate (but negotiable if it is a deal breaker).
1. Central Florida -- (partner to South Florida)
2. Houston -- (partner to TCU)
3. Temple -- (concession to Rutgers, WVa.)
Now I have 10 football and 18 basketball schools.
Basketball scheduling
-- 18 conference games
-- Round-robin
-- Each school plays one tied-in opponent twice (home-and-home)
-- Ties: TCU-Houston; Marquette-De Paul; Cincy-Louisville; UCF-USF; ND-UConn; Villanova-Georgetown; Rutgers-Temple; St. John's-Seton Hall; Providence-West Virginia.
** If Notre Dame left, Xavier or Butler would get invite. UConn home-and-home would be with WVa, Providence would get newest member.
FOOTBALL-ONLY ADDITIONS
With previous workings between BE and A-10, we can do some things again (and with other conferences). We already owe A-10 for Temple.
1. Boise State -- (WAC would love to have them back for hoops)
2. Air Force -- (WAC for hoops)
3. Memphis -- (Brings Liberty Bowl; hoops moves to A-10)
4. Navy -- (hoops stays in Colonial)
**Option to split Army/Navy as one membership, playing half-schedules; but not preferred option.
Football Divisions
EAST -- Central Florida, Connecticut, Navy, Rutgers, South Florida, Temple, West Virginia.
WEST -- Air Force, Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, TCU.
Football scheduling -- Six intra-divisional games; two cross-over games.
** A third cross-over game could be instuted (nine-game conference schedule) if membership so desired.
Football championship -- Rotating sites, preferably not more than two (Memphis and Philadelphia), definitely no more than three.
** If there were need to go to 16 teams, next two candidates would be East Carolina (east) and Southern Miss (west).
(Personally, I would kind of lean to SMU over USM; but it is more likely that USM would be willing to move basketball to another conference than would SMU.)
ANCILLARY ISSUES
-- Pitt and Syracuse could buy out a year early, by doubling their exit fees to $10M each -- payable in full before departure. Also, must agree to two non-conference games for 2013 season against Big East teams (unless there are not enough teams that want to schedule them), and two basketball games at Big East schools in 2013 season. That money distributed to members to add additional funding until end of TV contract.
-- Encourage Notre Dame to schedule at least one Big East football member per year. (Could include neutral-site games that ND likes to schedule.)
-- Increase exit fees to $15M for all-sports, $10M for football-only and $5M for non-football with two years notice; increases 50% for one-year notice. Notre Dame would be set as at football-only rate (but negotiable if it is a deal breaker).
