Politics

[MaxyJR1]

Just heard Brent Musberger on "The Herd". He said how brilliant if was of TCU to move to the Big East this week. Basically said that every Big East Coach will vote for them in the Coaches poll now. Coaches have to reveal their vote this week. Politics will play major role in final polls especially if Auburn loses.

 

[corcoran1]

Hopefully their vision for joining the Big East has something to do with factors lasting longer than 6 weeks.

 

[RodentRampage]

It's the same factors that will appear again and again. The Big East isn't greatly more diffcult than the MWC, but it does have the automatic BCS bid. If the MWC had been able to hold onto its best members and raid the best from the WAC, it may well have been able to wrestle the BCS status away from the Big East. The Big East benefits not just from adding a decent team, but by keeping the MWC off their heels for a little while. TCU benefits from having a much better chance at BCS bowl bids.

But the Big East is looking more and more like a house of cards.

 

[FreakyDeke]

With Colorado and Nebraska leaving, why the heck didn't TCU join the Big 12?

 

[RodentRampage]

With Colorado and Nebraska leaving, why the heck didn't TCU join the Big 12?

That would have only moved the Big 12 back to 11 teams. I would guess that TCU would dump the Big East really fast if the Big 12 invites them. If the Big 12 wants to have a championship game again, they may well incite TCU.

 

[washgopher]

will the Big East lose it's AQ status if MWC and WAC merge, the remaining teams there would have more ranked teams

 

[RodentRampage]

The MWC is already taking the best teams from the WAC. Boise, Nevada and Fresno are moving to the MWC. This leaves the Hawaii as the WAC's best team, and even Hawaii is looking at getting out. The MWC's problem is at it's bottom end, they have four teams with Sagarin ratings over 100. Their top teams are good, but they get dragged down by their bottom teams. If their bottom tier could improve, they could overtake the Big East. If BYU comes to its senses and goes back to the MWC, that might make a difference.

 

[Goldmember]

A review of BCS AQ criteria is very telling:

Basically, the MWC, Big East and ACC all fail. But the Big East and ACC will likely receive controversial exemptions that will aggravate the MWC. The MWC will then file a lawsuit.

When you realize the boiling water that the Big East and ACC conferences are in you can really start to understand the tremendous pressure placed on Randy Shannon and Bobby Bowden to win big and do it fast, or get out.