Does potential BE expansion solve our scheduling problems?

[Guest nobullhere]

Ideally in my opinion we would add a ninth football team to the Big East over the next few years which would make scheduling easier (4 home games, 4 away games in the conference). The Big Ten will probably try to add a team to their conference soon, and as far as I've heard it could be a BE team (Rutgers, Syracuse, or Pitt). Either way it seems that the Big East will look to other conferences as well. Any thoughts about what programs the BE should target?

[Bull Matrix]

I personally would not mind UCF, Memphis, or ECU. Either one of those schools bring positives and negatives. I think UCF would be great in the fact that USF fans will have an close road game to travel to. ECU has a good fan base that helps with bowl games. Memphis has that basketball, and the potential to bring in the Liberty Bowl.

[Guest nobullhere]

Personally I'd like to see any combination of the following two: Navy, Memphis,Temple, Southern Miss, ECU, or go after Boston College or Maryland in the ACC.

[slick1ru2]

Might, but the problem is money and the amounts teams want to play a single away game. That was why we had all those 1aa teams least year.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/130640

[Who'sYourData?]

I'm moving to the Big East board.  There are other threads on this topic over there.

[Guest nybullsfan]

[Mama_Bull]

Might, but the problem is money and the amounts teams want to play a single away game. That was why we had all those 1aa teams least year.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/article/130640

Because the Big East has an uneven schedule of four home games one year and three the next, it pretty much forces schools to play a 1-AA team in order to get at least six home games. So, that problem would be resolved with the addition of a 9th team. To get a seven game home schedule every year most Big East teams would still require a 1-AA game, because of the amounts now demanded by non-BCS schools for a pay game. USF is in a somewhat better position because it has one of the larger stadiums in the conference, but we still don't have a large enough season ticket base to pay out what WVU can whch has 10,000 more season ticket holders.  

[tbulls]

I know these are not exactly geographic fits, but what about TCU and Houston? These are teams that would draw more respect than some of the teams mentioned here.

[Apis Bull]

Obviously, a 9th team would help with scheduling.  Heck, because of the 12 game schedule, the Big Ten was flirting with the idea of playing 10 conference games.

[smazza]

big east should stand pat rather than take a  non bcs school