Stand Pat Big East

The Big East Conference should stand pat. With Nebraska leaving the Big 12 and signing with the Big 10, with Boise State leaving the WAC and going with the Mountain West, and on Monday Oklahoma State joining the PAC-10 after Colorado did it on Thursday is showing people that there is going to be some big time movement amongst the conferences. I think the Big East should wait it out. Do not forget, the Big East survived the loss of Miami FL, Boston College, and Virginia Tech. The Big East Football Conference is a pretty good venue and has an automatic BCS bid which it hopefully will not lose. The Big East Basketball Conference may be the best in the country. What if Rutgers leaves for the BIG 10, now Big East Football is down to 7 teams. I think the league should hold it's ground and attempt to absorb some other good program into the league. For example, what if Missouri is left out their to dry with no Big 10 or PAC-10 offer. Missouri would be a solid program to bring into the Big East with it's nice Kansas City audience. If Missouri is scooped up by another Conference, then the Big East will have to look elsewhere and possibly petition schools like on the rise football program East Carolina to join or Central Florida or even put pressure on Basketball Power Villanova to move its football program up to 1A. Do not forget 1AA Villanova won the FCS Football National Championship in 2009. Villanova is ready to go with its recruiting base, a nice stadium, a good market, and a great alumni group supporting the program. Big East football is good. Cincinnati last year went 12-0 during regular season, Pitt is playing really well, UConn is getting better every year, South Florida exploded 3 years ago and now has Skip Holtz at the helm, Louisville has dropped off somewhat, Syracuse will get better under Doug Marrone, and West Virginia was a heartbeat away 3 years ago to play in the National Championship game. Do not panic Big East, the Basketball Conference is great and Football continually gets better.