Big East offers Miami $9 Mil/yr for 5 yrs!

[GT Ace]

It doesn't mean squato when the Hurricanes play in a BCS Bowl game, but would be a safety cushion if the 'Canes failed to get a BCS Bowl bid. Miami doesn't seem to be real impressed by this safety net offered by the Big E in a last minute, desperate move to keep 'the beast of the east'.
Where would the money come from? Would other Big E members actually give up a slice of the financial pie to keep Miami from the ACC? Anyway, here's a real good article on the Big East's offer to Miami:

Big East's offer to Miami

 

[JJacket]

I wonder how long it would take other schools, Pittsburg/Va Tech in particular, to bolt from the Big East under this plan. You could see these two quality schools and others suffer financially. The Big 10, SEC or ACC would then look very inviting. Miami would be tied up for five years and have the conference fall apart around them.

 

[GT Ace]

Good point, JJ. That's certainly a big reason why Miami doesn't think too much of this offer.
Unfortunately for the Big E there's just nobody left, independently, for them to invite. They would have to do what other conferences are doing/have done in inviting members of other conferences to join. The Big E may have waited too long to get after Louisville or Marshall or Cincinnati or East Carolina or Central Fla. They should've jumped at these teams before now.

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

GT should ignore this poop. Actually the widely proposed Atlantic League would already be stronger in football than basketball and if any changes were to be made, it should be to increase basketball strength at the expense of football, not the other way around. The only basketball powers would be Duke, UNC, UMD, Syracuse, and a bunch of good, mediocre, or struggling programs, Miami, BC, UVA, GT, Penn State, FSU. A League football would have Miami, FSU, Penn State, GT, UMD, Syracuse, BC, UVA, UNC, and Duke, that's 9 good or great programs and Duke has lots of tradition and potential like ND or Stanford or Northwestern. 2 historical superpowers in basketball and just 4 schools to win 10 national titles including 5 since 1991. 3 superpowers in football and 6 schools with 16 or 17 national titles including 10 since 1982. Another reason to have better basketball and worse football is that great competition always helps prepare basketball teams for NCAA tourney, but can knock teams out of title contention in football. I considered replacing BC with UConn, but UConn's academics are worse than any other A League school and Storrs isn't Boston.