Conference Realignment: Boise State Not Sold On The Big East

by Jeremy Mauss on Nov 23, 2011 6:04 PM PST in Conference Expansion

It looks like the Boise St. Broncos may not bee so keen on joining the Big East conference.University president Bob Kustra has the power to accept an invitation for Boise State to join another league, but it looks like with the Big East on shaky ground that Kustra is having second thoughts. This latest comes from Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News and come from recent phone calls that Wilner has had.

Wilner also goes onto say that some Big East athletic directors think that Rutgers and UConn are going to head to the ACC, and losing those two teams should be the final death blow to the Big East. Had the Big East been able to land BYU things could have been different, but if Boise State says no then San Diego State would presumably say no as well.

It likes anything and everything is an option at this point for Boise State and the Big East.

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Hmmmm

I’m not totally convinced that the Big East is dead in football. Even if Boise State says no (and then SDSU and Air Force say no) the Big East could go after two more Conference USA teams (let’s say Memphis and either Tulsa or Southern Miss) in addition to Houston, SMU and UCF, and they’d have a 10-team football league and an 18-team basketball league.

I’m also not convinced the ACC is going to 16 … I’d think if they’d wanted UConn and Rutgers they would have already invited them (and the conventional wisdom is that they’re holding a spot open in case Notre Dame wants to join a conference). I suppose they might think that UND won’t join up, and that 16 is somehow better than 14.

Of course, I have no sources, so what do I know.

The drama continues in the soap opera that is the Big East …

Assumption is the mother of all @#%-ups.
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by mdak06 on Nov 23, 2011 7:00 PM PST reply actions

The rumors about AQs

going away in the new BCS have got to have Boise St thinking. That combined with Rutgers and UConn possibly going to the ACC and Big East football is inching closer and closer to that cliff. The hollow tip bullet is in the chamber. Pull the trigger already.

by airforcetwo on Nov 23, 2011 7:22 PM PST reply actions

I could see Boise waiting all the way up to the deadline for them to declare they are leaving the Mountain West

the landscape is still so unsettled, so why even make a decision before then?

by pack_fan on Nov 23, 2011 8:00 PM PST up reply actions

Risk-Reward

The reward for the joining the BE might not be great enough to justify the risk.

by Smoove V on Nov 23, 2011 8:07 PM PST reply actions

The MWC should move

grab Houston and SMU for 12 and watch the Big East go after ECU Temple UCF Memphis and Nova then the MWC could/should get in any sweetheart AQ deal that emerges and if none does their champion will get more respect than the new BE (if it even makes it). I just hope the alliance doesn’t stop them from making these moves.

"We are who we are. People say what they say. The outcome is the outcome. We are proud of ourselves." -DeLoss Dodds 9/21/2011

by TowerPower on Nov 23, 2011 10:23 PM PST via mobile reply actions

That makes too much sense

and it would require Thompson to get out of bed with his good buddy, the commish of CUSA.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.---Vince Lombardi

by bluesyourdaddy on Nov 24, 2011 5:27 AM PST up reply actions