Navy’s announcement Tuesday that it would join the Big East Conference for football starting in 2015 may have been the first shot in the next round of conference realignment.
An unlikely source is optimistic that the University of Louisville may be next to call the movers:
The Chonicle on Higher Education:
Expansion talk is on the table again in the Big 12 Conference, with the addition of at least one new member “very possible,” two high-ranking officials told The Chronicle.
The University of Louisville, which the league considered adding last year when it brought on Texas Christian and West Virginia Universities, is the likeliest choice, according to people with knowledge of the talks. Brigham Young, another university the conference has considered, continues [to be included in the discussions as well].
Brett McMurphy, of CBS Sports, who has been more accurate than anyone else on expansion issues, also tweeted that the Big 12 is discussing expansion again deciding whether it wants 10, 11 or 12 teams, and that Louisville is considered a “slam dunk” if the league goes to 11 teams.
From another source, the barber, relating that coaches were told a couple of weeks ago to “get their packages ready.”
In other news, McMurphy revealed that Brigham Young and East Carolina (a natural candidate for the Big East) will have a home-and-home series in football in 2017 and 2018. Wonder how the theorists will spin that one?
The Big East is good for basketball that is a given, but when Louisville, Cincinnati, Pitt, Cuse and West Virginia are gone it will be weakened. The Big 12 is superior in football period. It will always be superior to the Big East in football. Big 12 basketball will now have:
Louisville
West Virginia
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Cincinnati
So Louisville will make more money in the Big 12, have strong competation in basketball and have superior football. We need to headed there as soon as possible. We also need to tell Rick Pitino to shut his face up and focus on winning basketball! If wants the Big East so bad, Pitino should resign from Louisville and take the Providence job again!
Pitino has been quiet on realignment lately. Wonder how long that will last?
Depends on if Jurich tells him to shut up.
Interesting! Let’s see how the BCS shakes out? Consider this situation carefully.
I hope that you are wrong about Louisville. I hope they stay in The Big East!!!!!!!!!!!!!!