The way Jake Crouthamel sees it, the Big East is completely at the mercy of the Big Ten.
The Big Ten won’t decide whether to expand until December. But if it does, and the league targets some combination of Rutgers, Syracuse, Connecticut and Pittsburgh to join a new 16-team super-conference, there won’t be much the Big East can do to stop it.
“It all depends on what the Big Ten does,” Crouthamel, the former Syracuse athletic director, said in a phone interview. “Everybody’s sitting around on their hands waiting for the Big Ten to move. That’s going to prompt everything else that happens across the country.”
nothing super about those football programs …but the big 10 becomes a better bb conference. Memphis will end up in the Big East