Catholic Seven could begin play as early as next season
The future of the Catholic Seven basketball conference is expected to become more clear within the next week. An announcement about the television contract with Fox and the teams that the league plans to add could come as early as Tuesday at a Fox Television event in New York City.
Perhaps the most significant development is that the new league appears headed toward beginning play next season, with one source saying that there's a "better chance" that the league starts in 2013-14 than in 2014-15.
Presidents at the Big East football schools are scheduled to meet in Atlanta on Friday where they're expected to sign off on selling the Big East name to the Catholic Seven and finalize the exit fees. The Big East football schools are expected to keep nearly all of the exit fees the league earned from its spree of attrition and the leftover NCAA units from the departure of schools such as Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Syracuse.
That leaves the biggest looming question of how many teams will the Catholic Seven end up adding for its inaugural season. The chance exists that the league could start with nine teams if it begins next year, as the Atlantic 10 exit fees are $2 million per school. (In the non-football world, that's a significant amount of money.) One of the biggest remaining snags is Butler and Xavier untangling themselves from the Atlantic 10, as an immediate departure would be expensive.
The league will eventually expand to 12 teams in the next few years, with Creighton, Dayton and Saint Louis expected to fill in the final three slots. If the league grows to 10 next year Creighton is considered a slight favorite for the 10th spot.
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This should be interesting.
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Tough to imagine BJU having any athletics. They might have to play against other schools that have "those people" on their teams. 
Liberty made the big dance several years ago, IIRC.
My original Big Guy Conference would have been both football-oriented and ecumenical.
Just for that, Jerrah's Palace loses the Big Guy Championship Game. 
San Francisco at 49er's field. All the religious freaks would be horrified by all of the liberalism there!!
still pretty liberal, but it maintains a certain sense of, shall we say, decorum, better than SF. 
edit: You didn't call it Frisco! 
