How Will Big East?s Expansion Affect College Baseball?

New Addresses, More Uncertainty For Many Teams… By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires It’s all about football (and BCS money), but the latest round of conference shuffling – brought to you by the Big East Conference – will ripple through college baseball as well. As of this writing, an official announcement is apparently imminent that Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, Central Florida (UCF), and Southern Methodist (SMU) will all join the Big East to bolster its sinking BCS football status. Boise State and San Diego State would join as football only members, while the other three would be full fledged Big East members in all sports. The planned moves would go into effect for the 2013-2014 academic year. We’re not going to go into all of the football implications. You can find that on 800 other sites. We also won’t touch the irony that the new look “Big East” will include schools that are not even remotely in the “east”. The question we are most concerned with is:� How does all this affect college baseball? First, neither Boise State nor SMU have baseball teams, so those schools are out of this discussion (how SMU does not have a baseball team [...]

Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/12/08/how-will-big-easts-expansion-affect-college-baseball/

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