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Message: [QUOTE="CNYCentralCuse, post: 8391, member: 918"] Niko from CNY Central here.. I'm working on an article on conference expansion...but wanted to give the board a sneak peak...and, probably, to tell me I'm nuts...anyway tell me what you think..before the masses crucify me.. My gut feeling..based on some private conversations..is SU is committed to the BE. Especially with new contract up next year and potential exciting opportunities with other outlets (including NBC, maybe could mean more ND vs. BE games than we already have...and that probably excites member schools) Who knows what network will land it though...either way a financial winfall is in order Then you consider the impending death of the B-12---which as mentioned would most likely land Mizzou, K State, and Kansas with BE...that gives you a 12/20 fball and hoops model split into divisions like such: Big East Football (West): Mizzou Kansas K-State Louisville TCU Cincy Big East Football (East, for lack of a better term) SU UConn RU WVU Pitt USF For Hoops, you take those divisions but then add: West: Notre Dame DePaul Marquette East: PC St. John's G-Town Nova Seton Hall Uneven, yes, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what else to do...maybe take one of those East schools like Gtown and put them West, or add a Hoops only like Xavier for the west. That's about 15 steps in the future. If football futher expands, of course assuming the impending Big 12 death...Baylor could be added to the West (another Texas school and traveling partner for TCU won't hurt...Waco's Nielson TV market isn't THAT big...slightly smaller than Syracuse...but it's Texas) UCF and it's Orlando market to the East. That's my gut feeling as to what happens.. There's also the possibility that Texas (again) gets cold feet. That brings us back to just one domino (A+M) and just one move left to make. IMHO SEC's #1 pick for team 14 would be VA Tech. If that happens, then you have to look at an ACC expansion scenario, which I truly believe SU would be choice #1...If all that happened I think Syracuse would have to go.. After the VA Tech option for the SEC, it's anybody's guess I seem to think West Virginia would be a high caliber candidate (remember no existing states...which excludes so many other teams...other than teams in NC, VA, WV, OK--which could be P-16 country) For sake of argument, if WVU is plucked, and B-12 is in tact, you have to assume ACC and Big 10 and all other BCS conf. are content and not poaching BE teams, it could be a stop gap add of UCF who I think is the strongest overall mid-major profile left out there...not counting Boise, BYU etc who would be a HUGE stretch for BE. Thoughts and comment again when the article is published, please :) [/QUOTE]

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