Big East announces plan for expansion

[Mooche]

Big East presidents agreed in a meeting on Tuesday that it would be in their best interests to increase its football membership from eight to ten members, the conference said.

"Today, our Board of Directors affirmed a set of key strategic initiatives, including expansion, designed to enhance membership stability and maximize our value," Big East commissioner John Marinatto said in a statement.

Marinatto said the conference will refrain from commenting further on the expansion process.

League sources indicated to ESPN.com Big East reporter Brian Bennett that TCU and Central Florida are the top possible outside candidates, along with Villanova. The Big East would prefer to bring in schools as football-only members so as to not add to the 16-team basketball alignment. The question for TCU is whether the Horned Frogs would be willing to join only for football, since the Mountain West likely would not allow them to stay in that conference for other sports. The issue for UCF is possible opposition from potential rival South Florida.

I would personally love to see TCU join a conference like this. Yes, it might not be the absolute strongest it has been in recent years at this point in time, but it will be an excellent test for the Horned Frogs. Each year, they will be put in a lot of tough positions, especially tough road games.

 

[Dorado]

i can see TCU going to the Big 12 after Colorado and Nebraska leave.