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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 13841, member: 652"] There are 68 teams in the 6 BCS conferences now including Notre Dame and TCU. When all of this expansion garbage ends there will be 4 16 team conferences. We know 3 of those 4 will eventually be SEC, B1G, PAC-16, and probably a hybrid ACC/Big East/Big 12 leftovers conference. Not 1 Big East team will be in the expansion plan of the B1G without Notre Dame's inclusion. If Notre Dame became part of the B1G you can bet that Missouri would be 14th team, if Texas joined then you could probably bet the 16th team would come from Pittsburgh or Maryland. Syracuse WILL never sniff the B1G we are small private school not located in NYC and could not get the BTN on NY cable stations basic tier and bring 1 dollar per household that the BTN contractually gets from states with B1G teams. The NY Yankees got resistance for YES for crying out loud. As much as I would like the B1G it WILL NEVER happen unless Notre Dame went and demanded us as a partner they would want as well. I agree somewhat with your position on BE expansion. I believe what will happen is the Big East football schools will merge with the ACC football schools after the SEC swoops in and takes whatever schools they want to get to 16. I agree somewhat with your position that schools not in BCS conferences could be more appealing than Iowa St, Baylor, Kansas St however it would depend on what the hybrid conference looked like to determine if the Big 12 leftovers would join the conference over Central Florida, East Carolina, Houston, Tulsa. However, you overrate markets its more about fanbase AND media market while Houston is a top 10 media market the fans that are not alumni in that area are Texas, Texas A&M then Houston fans. Also, DePaul is the 3rd most popular team in Chicago behind Illinois and Northwestern. The reason DePaul was brought in was so the CYO schools would have an 8-8 split and not allow the football schools to have more votes. TCU was ONLY added after the CYOs were convinced they had no other options and had to give the football schools another team for their schedule. I was shocked the CYOs didn't demand Xavier or Dayton as a 18th team just to keep the balance. DePaul brings nothing to the Big East TV contract it is cool for Big East alumni in Chicago to have an easy game, but that is it. Also, if Kansas was added to the Big East you can bet Kansas State would be part of the deal over any non-BCS team. Kansas would be free of Kansas State if they could get into the Pac-16 or B1G without having K-State anchoring them, but for the Big East you can bet Kansas State would come with Kansas. [/QUOTE]

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