Truth & Rumors > NCAA
Big East secretly courting BYU, Fresno State and UNLV
- Views
- 2423
- Comments
- 18
08:19 AM ET 12.20 | The embattled conference, which is losing its prominent basketball membership, still has designs on pushing west. The Big East has "reached out" to both Fresno State and UNLV to join the league on the football side, CBSSports.com has learned. In addition, BYU and Big East commissioner Mike Aresco have at least had informal conversations. UNLV and Fresno have "definitely" talked to Aresco, according to a source. However, the talks are being kept as secret as possible to keep from "offending people," such as regents and boards of regents and trustees at those schools. Aresco is aggressively trying to assemble a group of football-playing schools to keep under the Big East banner. The problem: Uncertainty on all fronts.
Marvelle Harris, Icon Sports
Truth & Rumors
MOST POPULAR
-
1
Stunned Cavs open to dealing top pick
- Views
- 6655
- Comments
- 1484
-
2
Duquette's luck running out
- Views
- 3030
- Comments
- 515
-
3
Donnie Baseball trying to get himself fired
- Views
- 2034
- Comments
- 107
-
4
Namath: Jets wasted Smith pick
- Views
- 30167
- Comments
- 95
-
5
Rangers fear 'huge' loss on D
- Views
- 7719
- Comments
- 83
Eva De Goede and Ellen Hoog
Natasha Barnard
Celebrities at the NHL Playoffs
LEGO in Sports
TM & © 2013 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved.
FanNation.com is part of Sports Illustrated Sites
Terms under which this service is provided to you.
Read our privacy guidelines, your California privacy rights, and ad choices
Comments (18) Add A Comment
Big East... (of Hawaii that is...)
BF30
Total Comments (191)
If it's a thread on FN then it's not a very good secret.
HOGGIE STYLE
Total Comments (3054)
BSU and SDSU need to go back to the MWC. It will be pretty decent next year with SJSU and UTS joining, certainly better than whatever the heck the BE will become.
Armpit
Total Comments (10173)
Nothing screams traditional East Coast basketball being played in MSG more than Vegas, So Cal, and sand mormans. Makes perfect sense to me.
WPS
Total Comments (5154)
Yesterday's article said they would join as football-only members.
Dr. B-f-G
Bubbaville, TX
Total Comments (7798)
FI
Dr. B-f-G
Bubbaville, TX
Total Comments (7798)
UNLV football. I don't have to add anything else.
puttin on the foil
Total Comments (7695)
I admit it......
crimson_colored_glas…
Total Comments (1690)
So did this one, now that I read it....guess I should read the article b/f spouting off.....TBH, the pic of Marvell Harris shooting the jump shot is misleading.
WPS
Total Comments (5154)
If you don't know that by now......
smh
BackRoads
Total Comments (18167)
Note to BYU and Boise -- PLEASE come back to the MWC where you belong. The Little Least is on its last legs, and we fans of football in the West want the regional rivalries back!
Mozart2010
Denver, CO
Total Comments (591)
Given the economic climate, there has been a shift to having China as the central location on the planet from which all other locations are measured.
Therefore, they are in the East. ;-)
GR=O-6fan
Bumfrack, TX
Total Comments (12273)
HA!
W_A_M_U?
Total Comments (64435)
Comment
Remember to keep your posts clean. Profanity will get filtered, and offensive comments will be removed.