Originally Posted by
zjr1717
I understand some of your arguments, and were kind of on the same page, and I admit I did my "research" on schools hastily, but...
UCF is an excellent choice, its in Florida, in a huge market, and in Florida you can get tv sets and players. They're also already good at football.
FAU is in Florida, and as you said, has a good coach. Those two things alone make it a decent choice
Marshall is a fine choice, decent market (Huntington MSA has 300,00 people), and a school with good tradition in football. They have a faithful fanbase, and also, the stadium is bigger and nicer than Nippert, for example, I've been there. It could also easily be made much larger.
ECU is definitely a school to look at, but I don't think it even compares to UCF and Marshall.
Kansas, K State, Missouri, and Memphis are to far west IMO, and even if you got all 4 of them, they still would have to play at least a couple games against teams in the northeast, and travel to play said teams, which they probably won't want to do.
On Maryland and BC, I think they could be poached from the ACC, better fit for them geographically, and as you said BC is unhappy, as well as the fact they're solid basketball teams would get to be part of the strongest basketball conference. Va Tech might also be poachable, but I think its less likely than those 2.
Also, The Big East is already a laughing stock, its moves might have to be a tad desperate.