Winds of change blowing after Big East breakup

[Harry]

UTSA hopes to build regional rivalries with the likes of Tulsa, Rice, North Texas, the University of Texas-El Paso and Louisiana Tech.

Now, with the possible creation of a new conference, officials at those schools surely will be tempted to look around to better themselves.

Already, a newspaper columnist at the Tulsa World suggests that the C-USA football champion Tulsa Golden Hurricane might be a better fit in the new conference.

Columnist John Hoover suggests that Tulsa would be wise to look into a possible move because C-USA has lost some of its luster with recent changes, including the addition of schools that have just started football programs.

Personally, Im wondering what Houston and SMU will do. Both are scheduled to execute a jump from C-USA to the Big East in 2013-14.

But both are looking at a Big East that hardly resembles what they decided to join.

Id like to see those schools in UTSAs conference, playing in the Alamodome every other year, but with the winds of change blowing this hard, theres just no telling whats going to happen.

Read more: http://blog.mysanantonio.com/utsa/2012/12/winds-of-change-blowing-after-big-east-break-up/

[ragpicker]

I don't know what SMU and Houston will do either, but going to the Big Lost is not it.

[shaft]

It's not unreasonable to think the new, new Big East might go after Tulsa. They Big East needs 1 more western team, they wpuld want BYU, but may not get them. Tulsa is a central time zone team and would fit the bill. Plus strong private school ties with SMU and Tulane.

New, new big east

East: UConn, Temple, Navy, Cincy, USF, UCF

West: SDSu, BSU, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Memphis

[eulessismore]

It's not unreasonable to think the new, new Big East might go after Tulsa. They Big East needs 1 more western team, they wpuld want BYU, but may not get them. Tulsa is a central time zone team and would fit the bill. Plus strong private school ties with SMU and Tulane.

New, new big east

East: UConn, Temple, Navy, Cincy, USF, UCF

West: SDSu, BSU, Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Memphis

There's just something lacking about a critter called the "Big East West", although I guess the "New, new" descriptor softens it up a little. Maybe something like the "Really big New, newer, improved, bigger, more better, Big East West".

[Eagle1855]

So the new Big East is basically C-USA with a couple decent teams from the West Coast.

And we're now in a Sun Belt-friendly form of what was once C-USA, along with a couple of local start-up programs. Cool, I guess?