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Following on the 2005 NCAA conference realignment, resulting in the move of 23 teams across various conferences after an initial raid of three Big East teams, the Big East was severely impacted in the follow-up 2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment. Beginning in the 2010–11 academic year and continuing into 2013, 13 Big East schools ...
The Big East, often referred to as the Classic Big East, was founded in 1979 after new NCAA basketball scheduling requirements caused the athletic directors of independent schools Providence, St. John's, Georgetown, and Syracuse to discuss the creation of a conference centered in the Northeast. [5]
The Big East was one of the most severely impacted conferences during conference realignment of 2005 and the early 2010s. In all, 14 member schools announced their departure for other conferences, and 15 other schools announced plans to join the conference (eight as all-sports members, and four for football only).
Rumors of conference expansion began in December 2009, when Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany announced that the league would consider adding one or more teams. . Media reports indicated that the Big Ten had two major motives for expansion, the first being the conference's desire to increase the reach and programming schedule of its cable network, the Big Ten Net
The Pac-10 became the Pac-12. The Big 12 became a 10-team conference, absorbing losses, before expanding back to 12. The SEC acquired Missouri and Texas A&M, and then last summer came the news of ...
Big East (2013) ^ a b CAA Football has been administered by the multi-sports Coastal Athletic Association (then the Colonial Athletic Association) since 2007, but is a separate entity. ^ Charlotte initially joined Conference USA as a full but non-football member.
In March 2013, the Big East and "Catholic 7" came to a separation agreement, [43] under which the "Catholic 7" would leave the conference effective July 1, purchase the "Big East" name, and reorganize as a new Big East Conference. [44] With the new Big East wishing to expand to anywhere from 10 to 12 schools, media speculation on expansion ...
With the losses of Texas and Oklahoma, the Big 12 Conference was reduced from 10 to 8 teams. On September 10, the Big 12 announced that BYU, an FBS independent and full member of the non-football West Coast Conference (WCC), along with American Athletic Conference (The American) members Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF would join the conference no later than 2024–25. [12]