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FWST: Big East sticking together, giving TCU cause for hope

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TopFrog

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FWST: Big East sticking together, giving TCU cause for hope

By Gil LeBreton
glebreton@star-telegram.com

Instead of a wake, the presidents and athletic directors of the Big East Conference held a virtual solidarity rally Tuesday in New York.And while no reported blood oaths were taken, the leaders of the league's football-playing schools appear prepared to reaffirm their commitments.

How prepared?

Prepared enough, sources say, to pledge to abide by the conference's 27-month advance notice requirement for teams wishing to withdraw.

The six remaining Big East football-playing schools, plus TCU, which joins the conference in 2012, met Tuesday evening at the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown Manhattan. That, in itself, has to be considered a positive sign.

Consider some of the other recent moves on the nation's conference realignment landscape -- threatened lawsuits (Baylor), shameless poaching (ACC) and just Tuesday a university president (OU's David Boren) publicly excoriating commissioner Dan Beebe for his role in the Big 12's troubles. ...
 
Frog DJ

Frog DJ

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Wow, every new day brings a new adventure, doesn't it?

With the Pac-12 standing pat, it's probably time to scuttle the realignment talk, and focus on football.

Go Frogs! Do It Now!
 
Pharm Frog

Pharm Frog

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Are you kidding me?

Yahoo Sports Column from AP: Watch what schools do, not what they say

http://news.yahoo.com/column-watch-schools-not-081032939.html

"Not only that. Marinatto said league members also committed to recruiting replacements for the two — TCU has already agreed to join the Big East in 2012 — and "pledged to each other that they are committed to move forward together."

If current events are any indication, he'll be eating those words soon enough."
 
Cougar/Frog

Cougar/Frog

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The Big East might last a couple years, but it has been on life support for awhile. If the SEC goes ahead and takes WV and the ACC takes Rutgers and UConn, the ex-CUSA schools can try to rebuild and TCU can stick around for awhile. So what if the Big East football conference soon resembles CUSA circa 2003.....that was a pretty good football conference and better than both the ACC and Big East at the time.....and the MWC.....and on par with the Pac-1.....
 
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NativeFrog

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"... Giving TCU Cause for Hope." Is the BIG East really our only cause for hope? It really is only one option of several for our Frogs.
 
KillerFrog InD KitchenSink

KillerFrog InD KitchenSink

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As things stand BE is still the best spot for us, relative to the MWC. Even without Pitt and Syracuse, still will get good TV rights fees several times more than the MWC, and will have a BCS AQ bid for two more years. Shouldn't be that hard to stay as the #6 league for the next round, either. Pitt was average and Syracuse dragged the BE number down in the BCS evaluations. Basketball is still out of this world, and east coast exposure is valuable.

We'll see if there are any other losses, though. You have to figure the SEC will expand at some point (I doubt right away- the can afford the time to be choosey now), and who knows if the B-12 will look east (early indications are they won't).

In a few years when TV contracts come up and this stuff raises its ugly head again, we'll need to be ready to jump. But for 3-5 years or whatever this steady state will last, the BE will be a satisfactory lilly pad to stop at.
 
FROGDADDY

FROGDADDY

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I think the BE stays together until any of the remaining schools gets a better offer. So in other words, not staying together, not in the long term.
 
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txfrog87

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Lebretton says Tuesday night was a relatively quiet night for TCU. That answers the question of whether he reads killerfrogs.com. This place was a loony bin last night.
 

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