Big East Football Approves Expansion

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Big East football has announced that its presidents have approved plans to expand from its current eight school membership to possibly 10 schools, continuing a trend that began less than a year ago.

First, the Pac-10 came calling for Texas and Oklahoma, and instead landed Colorado and Utah. Then, the Big Ten came calling for Notre Dame and landed Nebraska. Then, the SEC courted Texas A&M and instead stayed put. And so it goes in the aim-high, settle-low game of college football expansion. The latest conference joining the adventure appears to be the Big East.

The league won't officially comment about anything specific, but speculation has focused on six schools: Villanova, TCU, Central Florida, Houston, Temple and Memphis.

A Big East athletic director told FanHouse the league is "considering numerous schools. All the usual suspects."

The Big East's official statement read as follows: "The Big East Conference submitted the results of its extensive self-analysis and evaluation of the college athletics environment today at its annual Conference Board of Directors meeting. Based on those results, the Big East presidents agreed that the interests of each of the conference's 16 member institutions would be served by increasing the number of Bowl Subdivision football-playing members to 10. They unanimously approved the process to evaluate the terms and conditions for potential expansion candidates."

 

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Source: http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/11/02/big-east-football-approves-expansion/

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