The Big East adding Memphis would be an unmitigated disaster
The Providence media (who else) started leaking these rumors recently, and now Brett McMurphy from CBS, who is close with John Marinatto, is now taking the rumors public?
My response? Wait for Tom Luicci to confirm. As we saw with the Villanova rumors, what Providence wants does not always come to pass, because the Big East football teams can choose who they want to play against. Memphis would need 75% of the Big East football teams to agree before they join for football.
Memphis, of course, is horrible at football, and has not been anywhere close to respectable over the past few years. The only way this remotely makes sense is if FedEx doubled their initial offer. For now, fans of competitive Big East football just need to hope that the dolts in Providence are trying to force their will on everyone else through the media again, and that the smart athletic directors like Tim Pernetti are trying to hold their ground.
Pretty much, let's see what the Rutgers leaks are over the next few days. If Luicci are Sargeant say this is a done deal, THEN we're screwed. until then, there is still a flicker of hope.
Update: and McMurphy says it's done.
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I’d have preferred another team out west but am not too upset over Memphis.
Memphis wasn’t always this bad, has a decent recruiting base and IF FedEx will dump lots of $$ into the program — then this can be good.
Memphis should get a conditional bid to the Big East.
Conditioned upon replacing Rutgers when it leaves for another conference.
I think this means that thursday we will hear that the BE is letting WV go, right?
I think the BE had to do this. My prediction is that we hear on Thursday that WV will be leaving the conference immediately (probably paying some sort of damages fine), followed by some carefully worded explanation of why Pitt and Syracuse can’t do the same thing. I think that the BE realized that 8 football schools is better than 7 even if the 8th is Memphis. I think they just want to keep the league stable until some of the larger name additions come in.
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