NEW YORK (AP) â€" The Big East's long-awaited additions are set, with some-more rebuilding to come.
The discussion is scheming to announce a additions of Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members and Houston, Central Florida and SMU for all sports as shortly as Wednesday, a chairman with believe of a conditions told The Associated Press. The 5 schools will join in 2013.
The chairman spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity given sum were still being worked out with a schools and skeleton for an proclamation were being completed.
The Big East has been perplexing to reconstruct as a 12-school football discussion given Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced they would be relocating to a ACC and West Virginia announced it was withdrawal for a Big 12. TCU also reneged on a joining to join the Big East and instead supposed an entice to a Big 12.
The Star-Ledger in New Jersey initial reported a Big East was on a verge of creation a additions.
The Big East has also been posterior Navy and Air Force as football-only members, though a troops academies are not nonetheless prepared to dedicate to a conference, a chairman said.
While a Big East is finally about to expand, it's still really most a joining in flux.
Commissioner John Marinatto has affianced to reason Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia to a joining bylaws and keep a schools in a Big East for dual some-more football seasons. Syracuse, Pitt and a ACC have pronounced they would like to pierce on as shortly as possible, though are not severe a Big East's rules.
West Virginia is. The propagandize has sued a Big East and wants to join a Big 12 in 2012. The Big 12 needs a deputy for Missouri, that subsequent year is headed to a Southeastern Conference, to have a 10 members it needs to accommodate a conditions of a radio contracts.
"I consider what John Marinatto only did, he should get a estimable lift for what he only accomplished," Louisville manager Rick Pitino said. "Getting Boise State. Getting Houston, SMU. we consider that is as good of a pursuit for a commissioner with his behind opposite a wall as I've seen given I've been in athletics. The teams we mislaid aren't as good in football as a teams you're bringing in."
The Big East is in an even trickier situation. It has agreement mandate to accommodate subsequent season, as well, and it will start negotiating a new TV understanding in 2012.
Houston, SMU and UCF play in Conference USA and a presentation date for those schools to switch leagues subsequent year has passed. Boise State is in a initial deteriorate as a member of a Mountain West Conference, where San Diego State also competes.
CBSSports.com reported Boise State will place a other sports teams in a Western Athletic Conference, a joining it left after final season, and that San Diego State's other teams will contest in a Big West.
It would cost Boise State and San Diego State millions of dollars some-more to join a Big East in 2012 than in 2013.
So a Big East could be headed into subsequent deteriorate with 3 sore steep teams. And even with a arriving additions, it still does not have 12 teams committed to a joining for 2013.
The Big East eventually wants to have dual groups of 6 teams and be means to reason a discussion pretension game.
The grand devise is to have Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, SMU and presumably stream member Louisville in a west pision. The easterly multiplication would have stream members South Florida, Rutgers, Connecticut and Cincinnati, along with UCF.
The Big East is anticipating that Air Force can turn on a west and Navy a east. But, for now, that's still only a plan.
Boise State and other schools prepared to join are anticipating a bizarre geographic pairing will lead to increasing radio income and some-more entrance to a Bowl Championship Series and a large payouts.
The Big East followed BYU as a western partner for Boise State, though when those talks fell by given of BYU's enterprise to reason a TV rights to a home games, a joining destined a courtesy to San Diego State.
San Diego is 3,067 miles pided from a Big East bureau in Providence, R.I.
The Big East, that has thrived for years as one of a nation's best basketball leagues, has 8 schools that do not play football in a league: Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, Marquette, DePaul, Notre Dame, Seton Hall and Villanova.
"The Big East has been a No. 1 discussion in all of basketball, obviously, by a volume of bids," Pitino said. "Now, have we done basketball stronger? No. You're not replacing Syracuse and Pittsburgh, so my wish is that they'll go out there and get a Temple or a Memphis to keep basketball strong."
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AP Sports Writer Colin Fly in Louisville, Ky. contributed to this report.
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