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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 317276, member: 780"]
They may not have to given that the only Eastern schools remaining in the NNBE --- if the Catholics pull out --- will be Rutgers and UConn. So there will be very little "Eastern" about that crowd.
 
The Big East name is only worth so much. What do Georgetown and Villanova have in common with San Diego State, Boise State, Houston and SMU? The answer is "almost nothing".
 
The New Catholic East and Midwest Conference would be reasonably compact geographically and have schools in it that have a great deal in common. They would blanket the urban centers of the Northeast and Mid-West. New England (Providence), New York, NJ, Phila, DC, Cincinnati, Northern Ohio, Chicago and Milwaukee. They could borrow a page from the original Big East and add teams from St Louis and Pittsburgh and have them upgrade.
 
It would be small enough so that they could play home and home against all members. And they could toggle the championship between NY and Chicago.
 
Notre Dame would be way happier in the Catholic East and Midwest Conference. It's better academically. Its much easier travelling. And there isn't the football schism.
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