Boise State joins in 2011. Nevada and Fresno State to join in 2012. Hawaii has agreed in principle to join as well. TCU Boise State BYU San Diego State Fresno State Nevada Air Force Not a bad top 7. Colorado St, Wyoming, UNLV and New Mexico round out the 12 teams. They will now have a conference championship starting in 2012 or 2013, as soon as Hawaii joins.
BYU is going independent. I would still say no. This year without a doubt they are higher. I made a post about this somewhere else, but the Big East played a large amount of away games this year against a lot of good teams. Pitt @ Utah, Pitt @ ND, WVU @ LSU, WVU @ Marshall, Louisville @ Oregon St, Louisville @ Arkansas St, Syracuse @ Washington, Syracuse @ Akron, Cincinnati @ Fresno, Cincinnati @ NC St., UConn @ Michigan, UConn @ Temple, USF @ UF, USF @ Miami(upcoming), and Rutgers @ FIU. I don't think you can find a conference that has that kind of road out of conference schedule. Some of the games are easy, but a lot more of them are difficult. It doesn't help that they lost most of them, but when other conferences don't have that kind of scheduling, their reputation doesn't take a hit.
The Big East is about to add two teams and who knows what the Big 12 will do next. The current BCS leagues are set through 2014 (I think) and much will probably happen over the next 12 months. I'm good with wait and see.
Rather have a playoff. Good point about relative strength of Mtn. West vs. Big East (and ACC for that matter). Even with the loss of Utah and BYU they will be a solid league. But TCU could bolt too. Don't know if you've heard, but supposedly this "TCU to the Big East" chatter has legs. Absurd as it sounds.
Yes it does, but personally I think it would be a worse move for TCU, because as weird as it sounds the MWC is stronger than the Big East, and with the addition of FSU and UNR it will be just as strong as it is now, even losing BYU and Utah. Yes the Big East gets and automatic bid to BCS bowls, but think about this if you have a Big East, an SEC, a Big 10, a Big 12, Pac 10, an ACC and a non AQ team sitting at the top of the polls, which conference is being left out of the MNC conversation first. IMHO not the Non AQ team, but the Big East and possibly the ACC. BSU and TCU are better served staying in the MWC rather than going to the Big East. I can guarantee that if the top of the polls were BSU, TCU and a Big East team, all with the same record, the MNC would be BSU vs TCU. Now if either of them get the opportunity to bolt to one of the other 5 BCS conferences then they should jump, but not the Big East. I do agree with the sentiment that the Pac 10 won't be inviting either of them. I personally would like to add TCU to the SEC, there are a lot of upsides for the conference with that addition.
All I know is that if TCU and Boise are going to be given title shots, this is a step in the right direction. However, If I am a major team like LSU or USC or, Alabama, Iowa, or Ohio State, I immediately stop scheduling brutal out of conference games.
I see where you are coming from with that thought, but it is a double edged sword. The media already blasts us for scheduling the likes of La Tech and ULM, if we don't balance those off with games against the VT's, WVU's, Ore's, and UNC's of the world we would get crucified more than we already do.
Yeah somebody reminded me of that today, I had forgotten about that. Still a pretty solid conference.
Should the Mountain West replace the big east as a BCS conference...No,the BCS should probably just drop the Big East. Sorry Syr :yelwink2:.
