Hey Bob Kustra, president of Boise State: it’s not too late!
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The Big East Conference has a chance to get Boise State a year early. So why isn’t this happening?
With the departure of Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC, the Big 12 needs to fill a few voids. On July 1, TCU joins the conference, giving the Big 12 nine full-time members. But hey, let’s make it ten! West Virginia has sued the Big East, while the Big East has filed a countersuit. However, it seems as if the Big East and WVU have come to a settlement.
West Virginia announced its departure about a month after Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced a move to the ACC. This left the Big East scrambling to stay afloat. As of today, the Big East will have added Boise State, San Diego State, Central Florida, Houston, SMU, Navy and Memphis for football (not all are full time members).
The agreement has been reported that West Virginia and the Big 12 would pay $20 million, $11 million of which WVU would pay. This would immediately release West Virginia from any Big East obligations, including the 27-month exit period.
But where is the Big 12 money coming from? Yes, I know the Big 12 has plenty of money to dish out, but honestly it’s coming from the SEC. The SEC is going to pay the Big 12 for taking Texas A&M and Missouri. Then, that money will be paid to the Big East for West Virginia. So what should the Big East do with some of that money? Pay the Mountain West!
With this money, the Big East could obtain Boise State a year early, pay off Boise’s Mountain West exit fee, and any other expenses such as WAC fees, entrance fees, or hey even Bronco Stadium expansion.
Last week, Boise State President Bob Kustra said, “It’s too late. I can’t imagine how anyone can pull that off. We would never want to pull it off in a fashion that dealt shabbily with our existing partners in the Mountain West. I don’t think that could ever work.”
How can Kustra stand there and say this move is not possible in this timeframe? Texas A&M, Missouri and West Virginia are all doing it. For heaven’s sake, it gets you into an automatic BCS conference and off the crummy Mountain TV network and back to ESPN. It’s not like any schedules have already been released, so go get it done!
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How would the current schedule for next year be affected?
Ryan J. McDonald
Unfortunately since this was published Boise State said they would not be moving forward with the possibility of exiting the Mountain West a year early. The Big East was not going to help pay for the move which left it fiscally irresponsible for Boise State. Temple is now looking at joining next year instead. It would not have affected Boise State’s schedule, but would have allowed them to schedule another out of conference game. Currently the Big East members do not have enough games with the departure of West Virginia, so Rutgers and Syracuse talked about playing each other twice.