Re: BC headed to ACC!

>>Right now the C-USA has a ton of teams spread over a huge geographic area -
>>they might actually be stronger if they lost a school or two.
>
>Not in the *men's* basketball game, they're not-- they're talking
>about losing, what, Cinci, Louisville, Memphis?  Good Lord.

Cinci, Louisville, Marquette, DePaul, and supposedly South Florida.  Not
Memphis.  They stay in C-USA.  All this expansion is being driven by football,
and Memphis football isn't attractive.  They haven't been to a bowl game since
1971, and don't show any promise that they might break that streak anytime
soon.  The only schools with longer droughts are Ohio U., Rice, and New Mexico
State.

Anyway, C-USA has already arranged to raid the WAC and MAC for Marshall, Tulsa,
Rice, and SMU as soon as they lose their existing schools to the Big East, and
the WAC in turn has already announced that EVERY football-playing member of the
Sun Belt is being considered for their expansion plans (because C-USA taking 3
schools would knock the WAC down to 7).  So at this point it looks like every
conference is going to survive, for better or worse. C-USA will certainly
survive anyway.  If there's a casualty it could be the WAC (should the Mountain
West decide to expand aggressively at the same time that C-USA does), or it
could be the Sun Belt (as a football conference), if the WAC steals too many of
their members in order to save its own skin.