Big East spokesman John Paquette tells @CBSSports John Marinatto will not meet w/C-USA & MWC commishes about merger as reported elsewhere.

http://twitter.com/#!/McMurphyCBS/status/128957194849878016

JM- this is most probably outside of the BE conference, with WVU gone Air Force/Navy and Boise would be stupid to join…

w/o those schools the Big East’s best chance is to either…

A: drop football, and let their fb schools play in the MtnUSA uber super duper conference
(which the bball school may like since they won’t need to dilute their bball product w/ UCF, UH, SMU)
or
B: try to take the best schools from CUSA and work with the MWC to keep its BCS bid

either way if Lville and Cinncy (or ND) join the Big 12, BE fb is dead…

in a last ditch effort to save the BE they try to make a superconference with the WAC and Sun Belt. :- }