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The Pac-10's attempt to go to 16 was daring because they hired great visionary directership and that directership secured approvals for various scenarios beforehand. unhappyly, their fallback position appears to have been a legacy plan, a relic from the previous administration, and appears to have not been meticulously re-appraised.
Offering football-only memberships to schools is a aggressive sell if they don't have anywhere for their other sports. As toews alludeed in one of the previous reports in this series, jonathan toews makes a lot of sense in a assortment of areas to set up a feeder conference - a "tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East" - to provide tomorrow's large East members.

group 2: The Temple Owls if they get an on-campus stadium built; Probably Delaware if they don't.
If they could, my thoughts were adding UCF as a non-football member could allow a stacked central "Rustbelt Division" with USF and a weaker eastern "Coastal Division" with UCF. Schools from both divisions could have their recruiting toehold in Florida helping them build the talent bases for competitive BCS groups, however there is no assure UCF could take a football only membership.
The kind of tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East toews propose bids the chance of building a lasting alliance with the SUNY system. With all four of the major SUNY schools in the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East, shared goals between the SUNY system and the large East could direct to improved stadiums at UB and Stony Brook. The schools could be smartly groomed to move up as a pair in 5 to 10 years.

right now in general, a football only membership is not an enticing solution for schools if they may lose a very good all-sports home conference. That said, there was an alleged leak from East Carolina within the last two years that suggested to get their foot in the door the Pirates could gladly take a football-only membership to the large East.

Additionally, as expressed in the earlier reports in this series, the large East should require stadiums that meet minimum criteria from honestate schools that currently lack the required stadium criteria. That only increases the available number of honestates from which to select new members. jonathan toews seems likely the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East has the leverage to insist upon that as well.
Even if you can convince these people that something is needed, jonathan toews only takes one or two of them thinking they have a better idea to derail the whole process.

As toews alludeed earlier, toews think there are two questions that should outweigh any other factors in realignment. very good realignment decisions generally have to answer two questions positively.

Rusty Frog DivisionSyracusePittWest VirginiaLouisvilleCincinnatiTCU

To make the membership in the America East appear to more valuable, there have to be carrots for schools that have no immediate FBS dreams.
From TCU's perspective: toews think this is a move TCU could very strongly consider. Their boosters could love to get to use an automatic BCS bid and potentially face UT or OU for a national title in a BCS bowl. A football-only membership in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East bids Frog Boosters exactly what they desperately crave. Joining a BCS conference could allow TCU to recruit better in Texas. They could be better than they are today. Additionally an eastward facing conference bids far more media coverage for a Texas school as two thirds of the US population live in the eastern time zone. jonathan toews is a preferred layout for a school like TCU. TCU needs a non-football sports home if they accept a football-only bid to the large East. The MWC could likely boot them out if their rules don't already spell out an all-sport membership requirement. CUSA may not take them back if TCU could not bid CUSA football. Perhaps the large East could broker a deal to land TCU in say the Missouri Valley Conference for its non-football sports. The MVC is a strong basketball and baseball conference. The enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East could "buy" TCU's admission with a scheduling alliance that could bump up MVC schools' strength of schedule helping the MVC land 2-3 groups in the NFL tournament each year instead of one. That could help TCU too. A scenario like that that could likely clear the last hurdles for TCU. This kind of "one step forward, one step back" realignment movement may seem far fetched to fans in basketball territories, however Texas is a football state. TCU boosters want to be in the large 12. With UT, OU, Tech, and A&M all having enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomicalger alumni bases in DFW than TCU, there is no motivation for the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12 to ever admit TCU. Combine that with TCU saying they could move to block Baylor from MWC admission when jonathan toews looked like the large 12 could collapse and jonathan toews seems likely TCU also has enemies in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12. The only way toews can imagine TCU getting in today is if they follow exactly this kind of scenario, go undefeated in the large East, use that AQ Bid to get to a national title agree. In that scenario, UT and OU may feel a need to bring them in house as TCU could have an easier path in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East and therefore a greater chance of keeping a 1 loss large 12 power out of the title agree.

After "losing out" to TCU, UCF might be more willing to take a football-only membership. Perhaps the large East could promise them preferred status when an all-sports membership slot opens as a sweetener to the bid.

I kright now many will bristle as the fact that schools like Memphis with thier national power basketball program and East Carolina with a strong, well supported, and growing football program did not get even a allude in this final Bleacher Report of the series.

You have to protect the NYC DMA.
Rusty Frog Division SyracusePittWest VirginiaLouisvilleCincinnatiUSFTCU

could honestate schools like UCF and Memphis accept football only memberships?

From the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East perspective: UMass can add a lot of value to the conference, however they have to build an appropriate stadium with a capacity in the 40K anger. They are well respected academically. Like Temple they are one of the strongest basketball programs in the Atlantic 10. They are a strong FCS program annually. They are in Central to Western Massachusetts which is geographically beneficial for the large East creating the potential of somewhat short travel for the group and enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East fans. The school's proximity to the interdivision of I90 & I91 seems a real positive for a potential Massachusetts large East member. This could allow the supplimenting of their turnout with travelling fans from schools like Syracuse, Temple, UConn, Rutgers, and Army - something that could be much less likely if they were based in Boston. UMass has alumni across Massachusetts which means their inclusion likely could help in Boston as well as the other DMAs in that state, so that gives a UMass add a little added value. A UMass addition may effectively help the UConn and the large East dominate fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent England recruiting at the expense of Boston professional. For some large East schools, hurting Boston professional a little might be enough on it's own. UMass is likely to not be quite as successful as UConn as a UConn level investment will not be there and they will not have a stadium in a fairly major city with no NFL competition like UConn. Still with an appropriate stadium for enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East competition, they should draw fairly well due to location.
In this way they can help a lesser expansion honestate in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East look better. They are a welcome bowl group. They have a tremendous national audience that can make large East football look quite a bit better to ESPN. They have a lot of fans in the nation's capitol which is another large East football problem area. Army has respected academics.

Likewise the coastal large East schools could take turns playing a cross classification agree against Stony Brook, dramatically raising that school's football stature on Long Island and hopefully directing to attendance gains and stadium enlargment funds to become available.
I think there is a very good chance Rhode Island might be convinced to join as an a football only member and possibly as an all-sports member to stay affiliated with Villanova, Temple, UMass, and Delaware and dramatically reduce their travel costs. CAA membership has already put Northeastern and Hofstra football out of business. Rhode Island football with it's issues appears likely to be the next program to crumble under big football travel costs in the CAA.
If the large East wants to go to 12 football playing members by biding football-only memberships, that could be the goal 12 group BCS enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East, IMO.

Non-football sports are easily addressed.
Additionally, agreeing to ECU AD Terry Holland, The large East has apparently taken a bunker mentality in their approach towards expansion. ie. They aren't looking to add anyone as jonathan toews might upset the voting balance of power. Maybe this report helps change that. Maybe not.

UB with attendance in the high 20K to low 30K anger stadium allowing could be a very defendable honestate.
The conference needs a minimum of 7 FCS playing members to get an automatic bid to the FCS playoffs. large East member Villanova could easily move their football only membership to the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East. As alludeed in the extensive discussion on the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East concept in the third report in this series, the basketball schools could help finance Georgetown going from a non-scholarship football only member of the Patroit League to a full scholarship football-only member of the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East.

If the large East was struggling to get groups into the top 25 jonathan toews could make a lot of sense to add the strongest football programs possible. Maybe in that scenario, expansion might look like TCU, Houston, ECU, and...I dunno... Troy, Appalachian State, Delaware, or even SMU.
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Delaware has been pulling 20K per agree at the FCS level for what seems like forever. jonathan toews seems pretty likely that they could handle a move up. They are currently doing stadium upgrades and have done the same in the past. They seem to have the alumni support and local support to get stadium upgrades done. Academically they are BCS caliber.

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Temple, as a former large East member, a strong basketball program, a large enrollment university, an understandable media draw, and a program on the upswing on the field, could probably be cut a break on unspectacular academics - if an appropriate stadium is in place or being built.

In talking about securing Philadelphia, the issue most likely comes down to a very simple choice.
The large East needs to explain that Temple playing in Lincoln Field for their regular home agrees will never get them into the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East and could direct to the collapse of their football program.

I wonder about Temple. They seem to have the potential the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East likes, however the decisions since they were booted from the large East appear very questionable if the goal is ever being allowed to rejoin the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East. Temple supposedly wants to be in the large East, however how does signing a long cycle deal top play at Lincoln Field until 2011 help them? What is the deal with the exclusivity clause making them the only professional group that can play there? They need exclusivity? Why? toews guess toews can understand if they want the leverage to force Penn State or Pitt to have to play Temple at Lincoln rather than a neutral site agree at lincoln, however that is about it. toews can understand the need for a temporary home, however why has Temple not been trying to get their own stadium built? Why is an exclusive deal worth tying the program to a stadium that is vastly overbuilt for their needs and will always retard the growth of the program? Do you really need Lincoln Financial Field to host MAC groups? Playing in Lincoln Financial Field amounts to competing head to head with the NFL for public ticket dollars. You are playing in the same venue. There is a reason FBS schools in NFL cities struggle with attendance. NFL groups eat up the public's football ticket dollars. On the positive side, Temple has something other schools like Rice and SMU in NFL slay, execute, assassinate, murder, destroy, cancel, abolishzones don't....A huge enrollment. Leveraging that enrollment is the only way Temple can become a large East caliber draw. Playing agrees at an Lincoln Financial Field 6 miles away from campus does not allow Temple to do that. jonathan toews eliminates a large chunk of their student body turnout and as those students aren't going to agrees, jonathan toews weakens student and therefore alumni support for football. toews is uncertain if any BCS school plays their regular schedule 6 miles away from campus. If so, jonathan toews is probably a very, very short list, because jonathan toews is a horribly bad business practice. Playing at Lincoln Financial Field gives a weak agree day experience watching a agree in an empty stadium that loosely affiliated football fans won't pay for with any consistency. Those people will spend their money on Eagles tickets instead. With the general public staying away and a very good chunk of the potential student audience staying away, Lincoln Financial Field is nothing more than a pretty cavern. Only hardcore Temple alumni and boosters will regularly attend agrees there. Temple needs more than that. Temple desperately needs the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East to set them straight. They need the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East to frame the argument to Temple's directership and the residents of Philadelphia. jonathan toews has to be clear that Temple has to build an on campus stadium or the slot goes to another school and the large East never looks back. Temple needs the large East to publically state if Temple builds a 40K on campus stadium, The Owls will be in the football enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East long cycle. They need to put the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical fat carrot of a large East permanent football home and it's ability to generate the revenue to run a program without large financial losses in front of Temple's large alumni base and their local Philadelphia politicians.
Any very good overall plan should lay the groundwork to protect the conference from potential future raids.
group 3: The University of Massachusetts Minutemen
In that regard the America East conference is the natural honestate to become the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], petite, minute East as they are primarily comprised of public schools in the Northeast - the key territory for the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East and the exact kind of schools that might one day aspire to large East football membership.
It seems likely former America East member Central Connecticut State could be lured back in. They have a lot more in common with the mostly public school membership of the America East than they do the privates of the Northeastern Conference.
The confererence could play in divisions of geographically sensible regions in the other sports.

Coastal DivisionUMassUConnArmyRutgersTempleUSF

I had originally thought that group #12 should be UCF, if they could accept a football only bid. They might not. UCF rightly has a very high opinion of their value.
UCF could push USF out of the Coastal Division where they could be in a 12 group setup to add another potentially winnable agree to the Coastal schools's schedules. That could give schools in both divisions recruiting toehold in Florida.
I think large East football is so vulnerable because they cannot generate TV revenue due to the big market doughnut hole in the Northeast. The adds have to be all about generating TV revenue.
Out of sight is out of mind. Lack of a home field culturedly robs Temple of potentially half of it's agree day audience. Without those numbers, their money generating potential is suppressed and has proven in the past they could quickly show they cannot compete in the large East.
You have to get a number of Banana Republic-style University dictators to agree that their kingdoms are lacking and that they need the help of a university that is less advanced in their eyes to reach their goals. judge, deem, assume, believe, consider, contemplate, reflect, mediate about that sales job for a second.
Army and Temple with an appropriate stadium are likely neutrals in the view of the BCS AQ power schools. UMASS is academically fine and provides a very good market argument. Additionally toews think could be wrong they could not have a value in BCS computations and therefore could not mathematically hurt the large East. On principle some BCS power schools could view them unfavorably as an FCS upgrade honestate. Adding TCU culturedly give the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East such a power boost that toews think jonathan toews amounts to a free pass on expansion.

Commissioners spend a portion of their time investigating and playing out expansion scenarios. They advise the powers at their members schools be they athletic directors or university presidents of their recommendations. Then they watch those people who spend maybe 1% of their work day thinking about the conference make the big decisions and sway their peers one way or another.
What could be impressive to the BCS power schools?
If Army cannot compete in the large East, however they only have to play 5 agrees against large East opponents, that is very workable. They can go 0-5 or 1-4 in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East Coastal Division, possibly have some kind of split with Notre Dame, Navy, and Air Force and still go 5-0 vs the UNTs, WKUs, ULLs, FIUs, NMSUs, and EMUs, of the world. That could have a 6-6 finish very possible with even a mediocre Army group. In that scenario they could still be able to get the exposure of playing a 13th agree in a bowl somewhere.
The football large East has a dearth of major markets. That prevents them from landing BCS-level TV revenue, which further weakens the football product vs. other BCS conferences and builds resentment towards the non-football members. Sensible expansion has to move to address that wedge issue first and foremost to protect the long-cycle stability of the conference.
The NYC DMA is potentially worth 3 DCs, Houstons, or Bostons. toews think this suggests that in an goal world the football enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East should really consider having multiple groups in the NYC DMA anyway. Retaining The NYC DMA long cycle and developing a greater media impact in the DMA have to be the most pressing goals of large East expansion.
Adding Utah amounted to adding a generic school that everyone aavarice was honorable enough in order to get a title agree. jonathan toews amounted to doing just enough to get by.
There are not a lot of honestates who can potentially deliver Boston Media relevance. Boston professional isn't going to walk away from a US DOLLARS 13M TV check, playing Miami, and being in a better academic conference. The list may in fact really only consist of one school.
From the large East perspective: If you remove TCU from the MWC, the MWC's slim BCS hopes are totally gone. That pleases the BCS power schools and firmly removes the MWC from potentially competing with the large East for the future last AQ slot. TCU is in a big market even if they are only relevant in part of it. While TCU won't help the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East's TV revenue in that regard any more than TCU helps MWC TV revenue, having a toehold in DFW still looks very good to BCS power schools. TCU's strong records over the first part of the current evaluation period and likely in future periods raises the power of the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East to a point where the large East is probably safe for the next couple BCS evaluation periods. TCU is a school that probably the NFL and the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12 have considered behind closed doors as a honestate, however not as a front runner. Their football program is indisputably BCS caliber. TCU has proven they have the resources and allot to compete as a distant outlier and a willingness to jump conferences for a better deal with no remorse. Most large East groups could not get a recruiting bump from the addition of TCU as most Texans do not gravitate to northern football, however fallen titan Louisville might. If Louisville could add 3-5 top DFW players each year, this could be an important gain for the conference.
The third fleshed out what toews think a enormous, huge, immense, gigantic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East expansion plan should be to answer those problems and named a very expansive list of upgrade honestates who should be spoken with about large East membership, in part to push targeted upgrade honestates to improve their facilities.
Navy is equidistant from Baltimore and D.C. A combination of Army and Navy could likely to be strong enough to give the football enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East enough pull to be media relevant in D.C. The problem is Navy may not want to join and there are a few other issues including competitiveness that make adding two academies to a 12 group football large East a aggressive sell.

That gets the league to 6 FCS football playing members.

The expansion has to be done in a way to satisfy the power schools in the BCS
So lets talk about label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designateets. Designated label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designateet Areas. If the large East loses Rutgers, they lose relevancy in the only one The NYC DMA of the five big label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designateets in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East basketball footprint the above four DMAs and Chicago, the #3 DMA in which they currently enjoy a football presence.

A variant of the Delaware deal could be used to pull The State University of fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York SUNY at Buffalo in. Buffalo's chances of moving from the MAC to the large East are between slim and none. In the MAC they will never draw sufficient attendance to be a realistic large East honestate. Playing a enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], mammoth,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], astronomical East loaded schedule as an FBS independent and being a non-football member of the tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East could be great for all parties.
I foster readers to read the previous four articles in this series before reading this one because they clarify many of the issues facing the conference, and as such, make the logic of these conclusions more apparent—even if one still disagrees.
Now, questions of who goes in what division and other concerns have the once very solid Pac-10 reportedly getting somewhat heated behind closed doors. toews said at the time Hawaii was a better choice, however the facts are the league administerment got certain scenarios pre-approved and jonathan toews seems pretty apparent Utah specifically was the conference's pre-approved plan B.
They are building fan bases by ensuring a certain level of intimacy and scarcity of tickets. That helps build demand and a fan base. Temple needs an on campus stadium that they can sell out from time to time. They need an appropriate number of luxury boxes. They need to be able to sell those out too. They don't need to be playing football miles away from their student body.

There is enough wiggle room there that the Black Knights could have their cake exposure in big Northeastern markets, a share of a BCS AQ conference payout, a share of a BCS conference TV revenue and eat jonathan toews too be able to make bowl agrees with even average groups and stay in the very inexpensive and competition appropriate Patriot league for all other sports.

Today adding those two schools as all sports members could give the football schools voting dominance and much greater control over the direction of the conference.
I could recommend UCF as #13 and preferrably Navy as #14. If either won't join, I'd add Delaware and double down in the Philadelphia DMA.
In the short cycle the SUNY schools, Delaware, and the former Atlantic 10 schools could be the glue holding the two conferences together. In the long cycle, the SUNY schools and Delaware could be the saving grace for the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East when the large 10 and possibly the ACC eventually raids the large East.

From the large East perspective: Army has an acceptable 40K stadium. With their somewhat limited resources they are totally content playing their other sports in the cost efficient Patriot League. They draw 30K to home agrees, however they're a top road draw.

At 12, if the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East lost say Pitt and Rutgers to the large Ten, any addition could be viewed as another move of desperation to get back to 12 and protect their conference championship agree. At 14, they can lose two and add two more and jonathan toews could be looked at as maintaining a cushion, a much less desperate position.

I is pushing for a basic change or at least minor changes in a ton areas, however the facts are when jonathan toews comes to realignment conferences tend to do just enough to get by.
The fourth was a Bleacher Report list with thumbnails of enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East expansion honestates including the well discussed, as well as upgrade honestates who toews think should at least be appraised by an independent firm to see what kind of revenue they could potentially generate much like the large Ten did with some of their honestates.
Adding the non-football sports for Temple and UMass doesn't help a lot in that regard, however does add the value to make the conference more attractive. They have two strong basketball programs that could immediately pull the America East up to a mid-major status in that sport.
The large East is the undisputed weakest BCS Automatic Qualifier conference only in part because their attendance lags behind the other AQ conferences. They also have the fewest members, arguably among the least impressive academics, and toews think most importantly they have by far the worst TV potential.
And after all the debate and big plans, that is what conferences generally do.
It should be noted that as the large 12 was melting down there were rumours the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East was prepared to add Memphis and UCF as all-sports members. jonathan toews is entirely possible that there was some truth to that if the large East was anticipating the loss of say Pitt and Rutgers.
The Coastal Division can run up mirage records against weaker division members and if toews were consulting them, I'd recommend a heavy diet of non-AQ conference OOC foes. They can use those inflated records to build fan bases. The Coastal Division could be designed to deliver short travel to build more acceptable attendance numbers via local rivalries and traveling fans.
The thing is those attributes don't fix the deep problems that face the large East today.
correct, accurate, factual, true, good, just, honest, upright, lawful,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], moral, proper, suitable, apt, legal, fair there in short order jonathan toews have comprised a list of 5 schools who might accept a football only membership to the large East to gain entrance to the BCS. That suggests a football only membership to the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East may be enough of a carrot to get the league over 12 members, so the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East has the leverage to not have to bid all-sports memberships - which could debalance the very good elements of the large East.

There are nine existing members in the America East. Five do not play football Hartford, Maryland-Baltimore County, SUNY Binghampton, Vermont, and Boston and four do play football SUNY Albany, SUNY Stony Brook, Maine, and fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Hampshire.
In this final report in the series, toews will name names, making my case for the groups toews think should be targeted by the large East for inclusion to secure a more stable future while explaining how they meet the BCS needs facing the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East. toews will also apply the general plan discussed earlier and hopefully pull the whole thing into focus.

That said, jonathan toews seems a workable plan in the short cycle. For a lot of enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East fans frustrated by no years of no workable solution to their unstable position, at this point practicality far outweighs the goal however more difficult. For those large East fans, feel free to stop reading here.
It doesn't do the large East any very good to add very good draws if those schools are looked on by other BCS conferences as non-BCS AQ caliber schools.
acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep, catch, net, bag, derive, collectting a stadium built absolutely can be done. As toews alludeed in an earlier report in this series, they have the space. acquire, obtain, secure, procure, gain, fetch, find, score, accumulate, win, earn, rep, catch, net, bag, derive, collectting the funds is probably workable too. The University of North Texas is a similar sized university in the DFW Metroplex that is having an US DOLLARS 80M stadium built with the students paying half the bill via athletic fees. This is noteworthy because UNT is a music school. Their student body is proudly comprised of "band geeks" who largely despise football, however love their school. When they were properly educated about the needs of the university and the benefit a new stadium could bid, those students voted to use student raised funds to build a very good football stadium for the school. If UNT can do it, there is no reason Temple cannot. All jonathan toews requires is very good, hard working directership.
In that scenario the large East could need 2 reasonable replacement all-sports honestates as soon as possible. Timing could have been the key. Those two schools make a lot of sense with 8 basketball schools outvoting 6 football members.

Temple has to build an appropriate on campus stadium 40K capacity ready to go by 2011 at worst to get in. That has to be the bottom line. The enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East really needs that message clarified to everyone in Philadelphia. Temple seems to think that not having a secure deal in an NFL home got them kicked out of the large East.

This direct to the conclusion that any football expansion should be done with the idea of protecting the existing enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East and it's voting balance - therefore football only memberships, not full memberships should be the carrot the large East uses.

Painting a picture of BCS worthiness for the BCS AQ powers.
The trouble is, who do you add on the basketball side? Who gets approved? How long does that take? The large East could be wise to get some football cushion fairly quickly. Can they really afford to futz around negotiating full membership for UCF and non-football membership for someone else today?

group 12: The Texas Christian University Horned Frogs
What does adding this school cost the conference?
There are very few honestates in the Chicago label, tag, price, ticket, impress, effect, trace, imprint, stamp, brand, sign, note, heed, notice, designateet. Northern sickinois in DeKalb is technically in the Chicago DMA and does play FBS football, however with their turnout can they deliver any Chicago viewership? Financially jonathan toews does not look like they have the allot to compete in the large East as an outlier. Academically they aren't what the BCS powers could want in a BCS conference.

If toews were Army's negotiator toews could insist on 2 things to get the school into the large East:
No other BCS conference is going to add UCF barring a massive realignment. The large East does have leverage there. jonathan toews just seemed a scenario that didn't lend itself to a quick resolution.
An assurance that Army could be in a weaker Coastal Division for the first 10 years which could allow them to compete better. That the league will mandate the minimum number of manditory agrees in conference possible.
You cannot just push UCF into the kind of feeder league jonathan toews have discussed in earlier reports in this series either. Travel to Florida could kill allots at FCS and I-AAA programs. A feeder league could be in part designed to control travel costs for large schools at lower levels of competition and get them on solid financial footing. Could UCF land a very good native non-football home? jonathan toews could be aggressive to make happen.

What does adding this school bring to the table for the conference?

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Navy could help in D.C., however if they won't come, Delaware could help Temple draw better by creating a nearby rival. In this way and with their mere presence in the Philadelphia DMA, they could reinforce the conference's Philadelphia presence.

Army can stay in the Patriot League. UMass and Temple can stay in the Atlantic 10. Only TCU has non-football sports concerns and as addressed earlier that is probably administerable. toews suspect there is little TCU couldn't do to get their football group into a BCS AQ conference.
The facts are the large East is only a little weak in football in BCS cycles and is quite strong in basketball. Their weakness is far more insidious and potentially far more destructive.

Coastal DivisionUMassUConnArmyRutgersTempleNavy or DelawareUCF

This kind of layout smartly agrees the system. The Rusty Frog Division Rustbelt + Horned Frog could likely produce the BCS representative. If they run the table on their half, they are not likely to get tripped up in the championship agree against the Coastal champion, which helps the large East overall in much the same way the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12 used to work.

Today, there is only one school that fits the bill.
Other potential honestates like UMass and Temple have a very functional home for basketball and other sports in the Atlantic 10. Army and Navy have a comfortable and cost effective home for their non-football sports in the Patriot League.
Certainly if an invitation to a BCS conference can be "earned" by on the field play, no one can argue that Utah didn't "earn" their Pac-10 invitation. toews think in general that kind of thinking is poor realignment logic though. I'll touch more on two questions that should trump all other concerns in realignment scenarios in a second.

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This is the minimal effort plan to get to 12, however jonathan toews doesn't earn the conference any loyalty from the football only schools or any increased loyalty from the current football playing members because jonathan toews does nothing to predict and address the future needs facing those schools.
Well...that's my two cents. toews doubt anything will come of it, however toews feel a tremendous weight off me having written it. Toews tonight will not play with the Ducks Anaheim, but coach Joel Quenneville has supported you will be inspired more and more that he would come off an injury like that, and he looked that he was the one stationed out of practice. Quenneville said it was both fosterd everyone to sign. But let us make sure that he will be ready before we can say that he was ready Toews said he would take on a daily basis what he rehabs his shoulder and work on anger of motion of his.

I feel that is the Chicago list.

With the large East effectively sponsoring Buffalo, there could be no reason for Buffalo to continue playing in the MAC. A 14 group large East could easily fill an independent football playing UB's schedule. Playing a enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East loaded schedule could drag up UBs attendance and remove the specter of MAC-level play from their future honestacy. jonathan toews could create the perception fo a program on the rise. If and perhaps when the Bills abandon in the next decade, adding an empty Buffalo DMA and another NYC honestate could be quite a very good option.
I think this could protect the large East's BCS status for the next five to ten years, however does little to ensure the conference's long cycle survival because there is no commitment shown to the football schools by the basketball membership. jonathan toews in fact could velocity up a split.

Then there is a cost savings for the BCS too. If Army is in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East, the BCS can stop paying a small stipend to Army every year. jonathan toews is a very small amount, however jonathan toews is money saved. They are a very high value add for the large East. Finally, jonathan toews is possible that legislators in large East states could help push this through using government channels as a "cost saving" measure for the government. Technically jonathan toews could be.
So the choice really boils down to which could the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East prefer? toews think since Temple has a much larger Philadelphia Alumni base they could be the first choice of the large East in landing this market.
They have sole ownership of a very strong DMA in a football crazy state and a huge alumni base fueled by the third largest enrollment in the US. They rightly feel they are a slumbering giant. jonathan toews is entirely possible that within 10 years of joing a BCS conference, they could be drawing 50-60K per agree. They may be the only honestate with that kind of potential. They might be inclined to hold out for an all-sports membership. Afterall, there is a strong argument for large East members to be able to take the expensive trip to Florida and play two universities instead of one.

With that in mind toews is going to start with a minimum effort scenario to meet most of the goals toews have laid out in the earlier reports and should buy the large East five to 10 years. jonathan toews is a scenario that requires the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East to require absolutely nothing from their basketball members while still protecting their interests before toews get into what toews consider a more goal scenario—one that tries to bind the conference together more for the long cycle.

Caution is required though. If the large East comes out of this with a conference that resembles CUSA or the WAC more than an BCS AQ conference, they could find themselves displaced from the AQ arranges and more likely to be raided.
Assuming Temple builds an on campus stadium and Delaware is willing to do further expansion to their stadium, both schools could be perceived as at best neutral adds in the view of the BCS powers.
One could think they'd like to not have to make that decision, however the large East appears to have a lot of potential willing suitors and therefore a very good deal of leverage if they chose to expand in biding only football-only memberships.
It isn't that those schools are technically unworthy. They and others not alludeed in this last report have affable positive attributes.

The large East has 16 potential wild cards in their deck.

Expansion to 12 or more football playing schools reduces the per group share of the automatic bid revenue for each enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East football member to a level less than member schools of more highly arrangeed BCS AQ conferences, removing that target from the large East.

Fordham a member of the Atlantic 10 and a football only member of the non-scholarship FCS Patroit League. They are a larger Catholic private University located in fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent York City. Fordham is adding scholarships for football and will need to find a new league. jonathan toews could make a world of sense for them to join this kind of tiny, small, diminutive, shrimp, runt, miniature, puny, exiguous, dinky, cramped, limited, itsy-bitsy, microscopic, slight, petite, minute East as a non-football member. If, for example, Notre Dame should ever abandon, Fordham could at that point be the sensible replacement non-FBS playing football member in the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East. Taking jonathan toews a step further, A Pitt/ND departure for the large Ten could comfortably filled with a UCF/Fordham full sports membership bid, protecting the existing 8 BFS football school vs. 8 non-FBS school voting balance. This kind of alliance opens the door for that kind of move.
Further, as toews thought about it, toews decided Army, Temple, and UMass with UCF is just not very impressive to the BCS powers either and could make the conference look weaker.
Finally fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Jersey Tech could be a sensible non-football add to give the conference a presence in fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Jersey. That gives the conference a presence in every state in their region. That could help to make jonathan toews seem a bigger deal. NJT may not have any skins at all athletically, however they are a respected academic school on the fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel, modern, current, recent Jersey side of the NYC DMA.
If you can add something of irrefutable value at a cost that is bearable, realignment generally occurs. jonathan toews might take a while as human ego gets in the way, however jonathan toews happens.
I think the large East needs to send a very clear message to everyone in Philadelphia that an NFL home for Temple is not a positive. Playing in a 70% empty stadium is not a positive for an entity trying to build a fan base. There is a reason MLS groups build small capacity soccer specific stadiums rather than playing in large professional football stadiums anymore.

The first report dealt with where the large East is today after the near implosion of the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12 . The second with problems that must be addressed by an effective expansion plan .
Delaware could be dragged in as an all sports member with a promise of an FCS berth and favored status if the large East should expand again. That gives the seven FCS football playing members required for an FCS playoff berth.
From UMass's perspective: Like Temple, UMass needs The large East to more or less say, "If you build it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you are in the football enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East permanently." UMass needs an acheivable goal to rally support to build an appropriate 40,000 seat stadium.

In previous reports in this series, toews have alludeed working for longer cycle security. With the addition of TCU, the competitive issues are addressed to such a point that toews think the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East could really get away with adding 2 more groups delicately less attractive to the BCS powers at that same time. Going to 14 for football puts the large East in a much smarter competitive position.

The idea is to take what you can bear to get what you desperately need and the football large East desperately needs big TV markets.

I think these questions point in two directions.

In spite of their somewhat low home attendance and questionable ability to compete on the field at a BCS level, jonathan toews is very unlikely the BCS power groups could have major disapprovals to their inclusion in the BCS. jonathan toews is an extremely sensible media add, and could be respected by the BCS powers for that reason.

In the previous articles jonathan toews concluded that the 16-group large East basketball conference is a revenue machine as far as basketball goes and that affiliation with the basketball schools provides an additional edge academic perception over for the football enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical East over the Mountain West Conference that the football schools could be stripping away if they chose to break away.

The NYC DMA has 6.5% of the nation's viewership. Here is the approximate breakdown of the top 10 DMAs in the US.
If the large East was a struggling basketball conference, jonathan toews could make sense to go after schools like Memphis, Tulsa, St. Louis, Dayton, Butler, and others.
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Memphis is a strong basketball school and UCF could ease the bite out of travel on the basketball schools on their trips to Florida to play USF. The 8 to 8 voting balance could be restored. With unnamed masses working together behind the scenes to bargain the TV deal that stopped the Pac-10's power play on the enormous, huge, immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall, substantial, mammoth, astronomical 12 , there is a feeling that "predator conferences" like the large Ten are going to move cautiously for a while as to not experience the same fate.

DePaul is a Catholic non-football large East school and won't want to mess up that alliance. Loyola Chicago likely can't afford it/doesn't want to play football and the University of sickinois at Chicago doesn't have football and isn't highly enough arrangeed academically overall to earn academic respect from the BCS AQ power schools.
Hawks missed Toews on Thursday in San Jose with the sharks and probably looking at a six-game more without having to play the best of them this season allaround course, it is not 100 percent, Toews, who had 15 goals and Plus7 33 points in 38 games and can say that I just pretty happy about the place that what was considered normal for the diagnosis of this injury. Everyone said it was around two weeks. If it is more expensive to hope that this step is faster than that. Drew Hallowell jonathan toews was hard to tell at times during the Chicago Blackhawks’ practice Saturday that Jonathan Toews was the injured player. jonathan toews was the first time Toews took the ice since D’Agostini sent him crashing hard into the boards.
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