There are good reasons East Carolina is still being prominently mentioned among the candidates for Big East Conference expansion in football.
In fact, if average home attendance were the deciding factor, East Carolina would be the most logical choice, having averaged 49,665 fans per game last season in its 50,000-seat stadium in Greenville, N.C.
ECU football averaged 10,000 more fans per game than Central Florida and 18,000 more than Houston — two other leading candidates for Big East membership.
ECU probably would be ready to compete right away, having captured two of the last three C-USA championships and making five bowl games over the last five seasons.
East Carolina also says it would join as a football-only member, which would make an additional member much easier for the already-bloated Big East to absorb.
The anti-East Carolina critics would say it’s all about TV sets. Houston is the 10th biggest television market in the country, Orlando 20th, an...
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F*ck the Big East. ECU's AD has done everything short of showing up to the Big East Commisioner's door. We are a football school, if you are gonna aim high submit an application to the SEC. At least we would be getting the snubb from a serious football conference.
