The Big East would probably need another team then, b/c 9 isn't gonna hack it as a conference number in football. And with another team, you're looking @ a TWENTY team basketball league.
I think East Carolina is overrating their own pedigree. If they add 2 more teams in football, they've got to do something about the amount of basketball teams in that league. It's getting to be a joke.
If thats ECU's offer props to them for trying to get into a BCS conference.
I think Big East fans would like to see a bigger Fish like Notre dame or Penn State, but I agree they need to get their conference aligned. Football with 8 teams and basketball with 50 or so.