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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5640567, member: 10528"]
I don't agree with you about dropping football.

But I also wonder who is missing from the Big East that REALLY matters?   The original 9 was Syracuse, Georgetown, Villanova, St. Johns, Seton Hall, Providence, UConn, Pitt, and BC.  Pitt and BC are gone. to the ACC with us, but the other 6 are there.  Pitt was just a thorn in the side for most of the first 10 years and really started mattering more in the 2000s oveaall... and BC with Gary Williams had some good teams with Michael Adams, etc.  For the first several years, the formative years, the Big East was primarily GTown, Syracuse, Villanova, and St. Johns making all the noise.  At the end of the 1980s, Providence had a run and Seton Hall had a run... and of course UConn went on a very long run.  All are still in the Big East.

The second wave of football members is gone now.  The third wave of the private schools... DePaul and Marquette are still around.  ND is gone.

In a world where Syracuse does not fit the mold of highest-level football, BC and Wake Forest probably do not either.  I could see both joining the American for football, with the rest of the sports parked in the Big East (14 teams at that point).  ND could park its sports in the Big East as well.  Maybe Tulane also. That would be 16 teams

Big East New: [B]ND[/B], Creighton, DePaul, Marquette, Xavier, Butler, [B]Wake Forest[/B], and [B]Tulane[/B].
Big East Old: [B]Syracuse[/B], Georgetown, [B]BC[/B], Villanova, St Johns, Seton Hall, Providence, [B]UConn[/B]

6/16 teams need a football home, Tulane has one and ND is find as independent.  Add Wake Forest, Syracuse, BC, and UConn back to the American.  18 teams competing for a G5 spot.  Probably a comparable western block would form out of the Pac/MWC... with the champions of the Pac/American playing for the one G5 playoff entrance.

Don't like it.  But it is a possibility.
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