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[QUOTE="sufan, post: 58896, member: 262"]
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Have to love the lawyers:

1) the all sports but football schools should have the right to vote on potential all sports football members because it affects who they will be playing; this has been part of the conference from the beginning.

2) SU, Pitt and TCU leaving gives the all sports but football members greater voting power; hardly a surprise.

3) the Big East has been slow to agree on an expansion plan because schools such as WVU, UL, presumably Cinn, UConn, RU have been exploring their options; potential schools to be invited have only within the last few days learned that the Big 12 for now plans to only expand to 10 teams;

4) the Big East can't let WVU, SU, Pitt leave early until they have replacement schools who also have to give notice

5) At present there are 5 all-sport schools: RU, UConn, USF, Cinn, UL;
UL and/or Cinn could easily be out the door depending on what the Big 12 eventually decide:

[COLOR=#ff0000]Should be an interesting meeting tomorrow:[/COLOR]
a) will they invite UCF, Houston, SMU as all sports members with Boise, Air Force, Navy as football only?
b) will these schools join?
c) are the offers conditional on Boise?
d) Will the BB schools say forget it: they don't want to add schools in Texas and another FL school as all sports members;
e) Who is in reserve if UL or Cinn leaves: Temple, Memphis, ECU: would the BB schools support adding those schools?
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