Big East Discusses Expanding, Losing TCU at LinesMaker.com

NEW YORK —Two peo­ple with knowl­edge of the sit­u­a­tion say Big East
uni­ver­sity pres­i­dents and chan­cel­lors are hold­ing a con­fer­ence call to dis­cuss
expan­sion and the expected loss of TCU.

The peo­ple spoke to The Asso­ci­ated Press on con­di­tion of anonymity Fri­day
because the con­fer­ence did not want to make a pub­lic announcement.

TCU, which was slated to join the Big East in 2012, received an invite to
the Big 12 on Thurs­day. Syra­cuse and Pitts­burgh already have announced they are
leav­ing the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Big East would be down to six foot­ball schools with­out TCU: West
Vir­ginia, Louisville, Cincin­nati, South Florida, Rut­gers and Connecticut.

The Big East’s non-football mem­bers are DePaul, Mar­quette, St. John’s, Seton
Hall, Vil­lanova, George­town, Prov­i­dence and Notre Dame.