Xavier AD says expanding to 12 schools within 5 years

[Bluejay]

Why in the world would the AAC agree to house UConn's miserable football team without getting to host their BB team? I don't see that ever happening, which is why any discussion about UConn is a waste of time unless and until they drop football all together, which is extremely unlikely.

To take it one step further, I'd be willing to wager that the AAC's bylaws REQUIRE a school to field a men's basketball program. I don't see them relaxing such guidelines just to keep UConn's miserable football team.

I'll take that wager. Just ask Navy.

Navy is a completely different animal. Their basketball team stinks and the conference didn't want it anyway. In essence, they are the exact opposite of UConn. For UConn, it is their basketball program that is coveted.

Until someone can show me that the AAC would be willing to house UConn's football team without getting their basketball program, I think this whole line of thought is nothing more than a wild fantasy.

[DudeAnon]

Seeing an interesting trend towards Creighton fans seeming to hate on the idea of any school from the former BE returning.

Anyways, AAC is a joke, they will take whatever they can get.

[Bluejay]

Seeing an interesting trend towards Creighton fans seeming to hate on the idea of any school from the former BE returning.

Anyways, AAC is a joke, they will take whatever they can get.

I've got nothing against any former Big East schools. I just think that pining over something that won't happen is a waste.

It isn't so much that the BE presidents are against football schools (although that is certainly partly true), it is that football schools need to have a conference for their football teams. Unless they are schools that play football in the MAC like Temple used to do, I don't see that any conference of a school with the type of basketball program that we would desire, would agree to continue to house the football team, while allowing the basketball team to be a member of another conference. That is even more true when the basketball team would be a member of a conference that is the other conference's arch nemesis.

Think about it ---- Do you reasonably believe the schools in the AAC are going to let one of their members IMPROVE the quality of the BE by playing their basketball here? C'mon....

[FlyByNight101]

Seeing an interesting trend towards Creighton fans seeming to hate on the idea of any school from the former BE returning.

Anyways, AAC is a joke, they will take whatever they can get.

Louisville would be great ...UConn is a long @$$ drive from Omaha.

[ArmyVet]

Seeing an interesting trend towards Creighton fans seeming to hate on the idea of any school from the former BE returning.

Anyways, AAC is a joke, they will take whatever they can get.

This is probably the correct attitude FWIW. If the C7 presidents had any interest in these schools it would've happened when they broke off.

[Dave]

Why in the world would the AAC agree to house UConn's miserable football team without getting to host their BB team? I don't see that ever happening, which is why any discussion about UConn is a waste of time unless and until they drop football all together, which is extremely unlikely.

To take it one step further, I'd be willing to wager that the AAC's bylaws REQUIRE a school to field a men's basketball program. I don't see them relaxing such guidelines just to keep UConn's miserable football team.

I'll take that wager. Just ask Navy.

Navy is a completely different animal. Their basketball team stinks and the conference didn't want it anyway. In essence, they are the exact opposite of UConn. For UConn, it is their basketball program that is coveted.

Until someone can show me that the AAC would be willing to house UConn's football team without getting their basketball program, I think this whole line of thought is nothing more than a wild fantasy.

You lost your wager.

There is a long history of "football only" programs in the AAC and its predecessor Big East Football Conference.

[Bill Marsh]

Navy is a completely different animal. Their basketball team stinks and the conference didn't want it anyway. In essence, they are the exact opposite of UConn. For UConn, it is their basketball program that is coveted.

Until someone can show me that the AAC would be willing to house UConn's football team without getting their basketball program, I think this whole line of thought is nothing more than a wild fantasy.

You lost your wager.

There is a long history of "football only" programs in the AAC and its predecessor Big East Football Conference.

There is? Who?

[TheHall]

Seeing an interesting trend towards Creighton fans seeming to hate on the idea of any school from the former BE returning.

Anyways, AAC is a joke, they will take whatever they can get.

This is probably the correct attitude FWIW. If the C7 presidents had any interest in these schools it would've happened when they broke off.

Exactly...if you've already made it on the list time is not your friend.

[GumbyDamnit!]

I'm surprised that ND has not been confjectured more for the BE at some point down the road. Yes they are a FB school but do they have any desire to join a FB league? No. Does the relationship sour if there are more defections from the ACC for FB (think Florida State, VA Tech, maybe even UNC or NC State to the SEC or Big 12), and the other schools start putting pressure on ND to join in all sports. Trust me I am not happy that ND didn't do more to try to help keep the oBE together but, they'd be a better BB option than some of the others mentioned.

[TheHall]

I'm surprised that ND has not been confjectured more for the BE at some point down the road. Yes they are a FB school but do they have any desire to join a FB league? No. Does the relationship sour if there are more defections from the ACC for FB (think Florida State, VA Tech, maybe even UNC or NC State to the SEC or Big 12), and the other schools start putting pressure on ND to join in all sports. Trust me I am not happy that ND didn't do more to try to help keep the oBE together but, they'd be a better BB option than some of the others mentioned.

I would have to think that of all the teams being mention for 11 & 12 nd would have to be the one school who would have had to been asked already. How couldn't Fox & the C7 have asked ND before X & Butler. They had to have said no thanks & I can't think of anything that's happened since that would have changed that position.