New Big East Baseball Teams

As best as I can tell, you've got it about right.

ND should be gone.

Don't know about SMU.

Seriously doubt SDSU joins in anything but football. Too expensive to move a baseball team across country that many times a year and they have their non-football sports in the Big West I believe.

Navy has never expressed an interest in anything but football.

BYU and/or Air Force are rumored to be the 'next' team...but only in football.

Army has not shown much interest, nor the BE in them due to the current state of their football program.

There are plenty of rumors that Louisville will leave the conference the first chance they get...most rumors center around the Big 12 for them...possibly the ACC.

Rutgers is rumored to be interested in leaving for the ACC or Big 10.

UConn is rumored to be interested in the ACC.

Cincinnati rumored to be interested in Big 12 or ACC.

Football drives nearly all of this...many think we are headed towards a 4x16 super conference structure which would almost surely be the SEC, Big12, Big10 and Pac 12 if it happened. I have serious doubts about that based on what I'm hearing inside the Pac 12 with little or no interest in expanding further...and to who would they expand anyways?

I do think we may see a football conference structure evolve that is different from the other sports (other than perhaps basketball). Travel expenses and schedules are just too mind blowing to include baseball, volleyball, softball, etc... in massive cross country treks multiple times per year. Football travels on charters making it much easier.

Whew! Sorry 'bout all that info. I am a Cincinnati alum and fan...although I live on the West Coast. I do follow this stuff fairly carefully.

No...that's great info and helpful to know for those that have kids considering Big East schools. Thanks.

The Big EAST needs to add Hawaii and U of Mexico and Brazil. What a desparate conference trying to survive.

Let's not forget there is college baseball in Japan and Korea. The conference could be renamed the Far Big East if they were to join....

JBB,

Interesting thoughts. If some of those "rumors" come true, I will be shocked but stranger things have happened (ie WVU joing the Big 12 comes to mind).

LOL...funny. The mass exodus of schools and the recent influx into the conference must make recruiting difficult. I cant even tell my 2015 where he might travel to play since there's no knowing at the moment. Who knows what the Big East looks like in a few years!

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Originally posted by BK_Razorback:
LOL...funny. The mass exodus of schools and the recent influx into the conference must make recruiting difficult. I cant even tell my 2015 where he might travel to play since there's no knowing at the moment. Who knows what the Big East looks like in a few years!

Ask the coaches. I think at least some will give you a good current assessment.

Way back in 2003 our older son was being recruited by Notre Dame. The coach at the time told us he expected ND to move to the ACC soon. Took about 10 years...but I guess thats what it looked like to him at that time.

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I will be shocked but stranger things have happened (ie WVU joing the Big 12 comes to mind).

Yeah...I know what you mean.

I think WVU's football team will probably benefit from the move to the Big 12. I think most of their other sports will suffer, including basketball, because of the grinding travel. Football takes charters, but baseball and other sports will get on a bus to Pittsburgh...fly towards Austin/Norman/Dallas/Lawrence/AmesIowa/etc... with connections through Chicago a lot...missing school even more than now...play some games through late Sunday....arrive back in Morgantown late late Sunday night.

I think it will wear those other teams out.

justbaseball- Great point about the travel circumstances. Especially with connecting flights/missing class. I would assume that rather than leaving via bus on Thursday afternoon to start a weekend series, the team would have to leave Thursday morning in order to get to the airport, get the connecting flight and then transfer to the destination city before settling into the hotel Thursday evening and preparing to play the following day. Missing Thursday and Friday classes in the same week isn't fun, especially when there's usually a mid-week game (home or away) Tuesday and/or Wednesday.

No one said its easy being a student-athlete...