Post by CrimsonPhantom on Jun 18, 2012 9:22:59 GMT -7
TU's nonconference scheduling plans on hold
HOW CAN the University of Tulsa or any one of 60 or so other schools move forward with any kind of strategy without knowing whether Notre Dame will be playing in the Big East - or if there is even going to be a Big East?
TU folks sound pretty pleased about competing in a restocked Conference USA, which begins play in 2013-14.
But the league itself, which apparently felt steady enough to expand last month to 14 members after a panicked exodus by Houston, SMU, Central Florida and Memphis to the Big East, is still considering a mass merger of some kind with the Mountain West Conference.
But if a new college football postseason alters its inclusion process to shut out the ever-changing Big East, does Notre Dame consider membership (for sports other than football) in another league? Do the remote new schools, such as Boise State or San Diego State or Houston, who sought greener grass in the suddenly unsteady Big East, come to their senses? Does the Big East expand some more, reform again or just implode altogether?
With BCS meetings last week and this week in Chicago, Tulsa finds itself right in the middle of it all.
"We try to stay on top of it as much as we can," TU athletic director Ross Parmley told the Tulsa World last week. "We try to have as many conversations as we can with our commissioner, who's a part of those meetings. Because it affects scheduling and what we're going to do in the future."
Continue reading here- www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=231&articleid=20120617_29_B1_HOWCAN484740&allcom=1
HOW CAN the University of Tulsa or any one of 60 or so other schools move forward with any kind of strategy without knowing whether Notre Dame will be playing in the Big East - or if there is even going to be a Big East?
TU folks sound pretty pleased about competing in a restocked Conference USA, which begins play in 2013-14.
But the league itself, which apparently felt steady enough to expand last month to 14 members after a panicked exodus by Houston, SMU, Central Florida and Memphis to the Big East, is still considering a mass merger of some kind with the Mountain West Conference.
But if a new college football postseason alters its inclusion process to shut out the ever-changing Big East, does Notre Dame consider membership (for sports other than football) in another league? Do the remote new schools, such as Boise State or San Diego State or Houston, who sought greener grass in the suddenly unsteady Big East, come to their senses? Does the Big East expand some more, reform again or just implode altogether?
With BCS meetings last week and this week in Chicago, Tulsa finds itself right in the middle of it all.
"We try to stay on top of it as much as we can," TU athletic director Ross Parmley told the Tulsa World last week. "We try to have as many conversations as we can with our commissioner, who's a part of those meetings. Because it affects scheduling and what we're going to do in the future."
Continue reading here- www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=231&articleid=20120617_29_B1_HOWCAN484740&allcom=1