Big East added teams according to reports...

[donovan]

Some further rumors from the Big East. Reportedly there is interest in adding Memphis and Temple back in as all sports members.

Swamp Daddy

I am pretty sure Memphis really wants to go to Boise in December to play in 15 degree weather. And the plane trip when you fly diagonally in the states, from South to Northwest is so exhilarating.

Yeah but Memphis has blue uniforms, so you may not be able to see them play.

And with Boise's blue uniforms and with the blue turf...maybe everyone will be confused and the score will be 434 to 431, Memphis...Boise will still not have a kicker....

[Swamp Daddy]

Well, scheduling will definitely be a nightmare. But, I guess they added enough teams for a 'western' division and probably only one or two cross divisional games per year. Distances were already big for Louisville, Cincy & South Florida.

And, we can guess there will be one of those meaningless but money making conference championship games.

In my opinion the Big East Commissioner has been lousy at scheduling; but, I bet many of you wonder if your own conferences have used the pin the tail on the donkey method of scheduling too.

Yep Memphis and Temple were definitely basketball moves. At one time Memphis was a football power; but, not recently.

Swamp Daddy

[Swamp Daddy]

Here's a funny story (now some decades later on) about Memphis football. It was 1969, Lee Corso's first year as UL football coach, and Memphis State (as it was called then) was a football powerhouse and was expecting a bowl bid. Back then there were about 1/4th the bowls there are now.

Memphis State got the cold shoulder, no bowl bids. They were highly pissed; and, as back then bowl bids came out early there were still two games in the regular season to go. Unfortunately UL traveled to Memphis that weekend (after bids were out) and UL wasn't very good.

Memphis State was piling it on Louisville at every opportunity just to let the various bowl officials know how dumb they had been to leave them out of a bowl. I don't recall the score at the time, but late in the 4th quarter Coach Corso had had enough and he ran on to the field to "throw the towel in", which he did by tossing a white towel on to the field.

I don't recall if that garnered UL a penalty or not; but, it really didn't matter as Memphis State went on to score several more times even calling a time out with less than 10 seconds to go to set up a last touchdown. They stomped us 69-19 at that game.

So, UL took revenge that fall giving Memphis State the first in a long line of Basketball defeats to UL by large margins in those early days.

The rivalry was intense in both major sports through 3 conferences and 3.5 decades until UL left CUSA to go to the Big East in 2006.


Swamp Daddy

[Cane from the Bend]

And, we can guess there will be one of those meaningless but money making conference championship games.

No doubt;

However, at least in the Big East, a 6-6 leader of one division could actually defeat a 10-2 leader of the other side of the conference.


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