plus you’ve got NY, DC, Chi, and Philly markets. It’s a winner.

Don’t forget the all-important Providence market.

we may never see the four-time-zone monstrosity

Didn’t WWoS say a long time ago this is where we are headed?

% of bball fans who go to the games and are also huge nerds is roughly, what, 65%?

There’s this place called the north. You aren’t going to believe this, but normal people enjoy basketball. Some even like it more than football.
/Rittyrich’s head spins

Everyone remember it was the right move for Big East to pursue football though!!!

And this is where the four 16 team superconferences come into play. they break away from the NCAA and hold their own basketball tourney, splitting the revenue four ways.

That would be a complete disaster. So georgetown, Villanova, Butler, Gonzaga etc are not going to play in that tournament? That would never happen.

I’m still confused as to why Boise State is going along with this cockamamie Big East idea. The fact that they almost made a BCS game by beating no one this year and having 2 losses shows they have national relevance. This newfangled Big East cannot give them that much of an SOS boost or that much tv revenue to be worth it. Ludicrous. Just take SDSU and poach Houston and go back to the MWC. Add in the fact that the Big East has no more BCS tie in therefore no guaranteed money from a BCS game makes it even more curious.

This is may or may not be true. This is part of the discussion and argument. The FBS schools say they have a full vote while basketball schools say they don’t until the other members are officially in. The basketball schools have 6 months to get this done and then they would be outvoted by the future members.

The schools own the 2/3 majority vote and are discussing dissolving the Big East.

I read they gave Temple a full vote and that can hold this up.

And yet it’s a BCS conference for one more year.

I rule at Techpocalypse.

East: Cincinnati, UConn, Temple, South Florida, Central Florida, East Carolina, Navy

West: Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, Memphis, SMU, Tulane

Truly hilarious.

/dunks Ritty’s head in the toilet and flushed while giving him a wedgy.

Who is the nerd now, tough guy?

It doesn’t count if you created a computer program and did that in your alternate life on the internet. Nerd.

Oh, I like that much better than joining the A10. I wonder who they would poach?

Xavier, Dayton, Saint Louis, Creighton, Butler and George Mason are the teams being talked about.

Here is the thing. All members of the 7 schools must vote to dissolve and cannot abstain from the vote or this doesn’t work. They also cannot just leave the league or else they owe an exit fee, forfeit the money owed to them and would be left to try and join the A10 instead of forming their own league and marketing it to the highest bidding network. This proposal has been discussed before and may have been what caused Cuse to 1st check on exiting the Big East for the Big 10. FBS schools were scared that the non FBS schools would ban together and try to form their own conference leaving the football schools to find a conference and without money and now tables have turned.