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What are the thoughts of FAU fans???
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Ha, if only it were that easy
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Cardinal said
What are the thoughts of FAU fans???
We'd love to be in the Big East, obviously, but our facilities and attendance aren't on par to even be a serious contender right now. Our attendance was about 10k last year and is steadily growing; I think it's reasonable to see 2k-5k more this year because of last year's bowl win and this year's potential. Furthermore, our stadium opens in 2010 but will only be 30k seats until… well, could be 2015 before it's 40-45k (assuming we continue to do well).
So really, I think it depends on when the Big East expands. For FAU, the later, the better. If it expands in the next three years, I very much doubt FAU will be in the conversation… as much as it pains me to say that. If the Big East expands in that time frame, I see them taking ECU and possibly UCF (depending on politics) because of facilities/attendance and us getting an offer to join CUSA.
Maybe something completely unexpected will occur like a major conference shake-up… much like ACC stealing BE teams. Something like that could bode well for us but we can't predict it nor depend on it.
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Thanks for your thoughts guys!!
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Cardinal said
Our commish, Tranghese, is retiring soon. Keeping the conference together after the defections was an amazing feat, one more thing he has said he wants to accomplish is the addition of a 9th football school. Problem is we have a 16 team basketball league. Most of the talk is adding a football-only school (at least football only in the begining).
Thanks for your thoughts guys!!
How does a Football only confrence work in general?
Lets say FAU gets into the Big East as a Football only, does that mean that all the other sports stay in the SunBelt? I would imagine that a % of revenue would have to go to the Sunbelt along with the Big East. Dont take Memphis, LOL they are too focused on Basketball to be a Football only member
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owlfamily said
Cardinal said
Our commish, Tranghese, is retiring soon. Keeping the conference together after the defections was an amazing feat, one more thing he has said he wants to accomplish is the addition of a 9th football school. Problem is we have a 16 team basketball league. Most of the talk is adding a football-only school (at least football only in the begining).
Thanks for your thoughts guys!!
How does a Football only confrence work in general?
Lets say FAU gets into the Big East as a Football only, does that mean that all the other sports stay in the SunBelt? I would imagine that a % of revenue would have to go to the Sunbelt along with the Big East. Dont take Memphis, LOL they are too focused on Basketball to be a Football only member
I am assuming that yes, FAU would stay a member of the Sun Belt in all other sports. Football revenue would be split amoung the 9 football schools (current 8 & FAU). This would give FAU time to build and/or upgrade facilites to become a full fledge Big East member. My gut feeling is that expansion will be to a Florida school in the next year or two. That way the conference has inroads to the state recruiting with 2 state schools being members…The possiblity remains that when the next round of conference shake-up happens the basketball schools (Georgetown, Seton Hall, DePaul, ect.) will split to form their own conference. Any defections by Big East football schools, like the ACC raid, will probally be a death-kill to the Big East. So I feel the conference ADs are going to want to be reactive this time around.
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