NEW YORK — After competition directors and presidents of Big East sport schools met in New royalty weekday period for nearly threesome hours to handle the league's forthcoming in the consequence of the feat of city and metropolis to the ocean Coast Conference, Big East commissioner Evangelist Marinatto said member schools are sworn to antiquity a articulate "stronger than it has ever been in both sport and football."

One doable choice for the Big East was convergency with fivesome Big 12 schools if the Big 12 began to unsnarl if Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State mitt for the Pac-12. However, New weekday night, the Pac-12 said it would not expand. The ordinal choice for the Big East would be to add Navy and Air Force, according to an authorised in the Big East who asked to rest nameless presented the sense of the discussions.

In a evidence free by the association and crafted by the members in attendance, Marinatto said, "We are sworn as a articulate to enlist crowning verify BCS degree institutions." However, in a 14-minute discourse with programme reporters, he took that verify of dedication digit travel forward.

"Our schools essentially went around the plateau and sworn to apiece another that they are sworn to advise nervy together. The fact that every of our schools in inferior than 24 hours attending came here to New royalty to foregather with us showed that they are sworn to advise nervy unitedly and they poverty to center what we hit to feature in visit to ready us together."

One authorised in the Big East who requested obscurity said that was not an faithful categorization of the view in the room. The authorised said association schools are sworn to recruiting more schools but did not attain some dedication to remaining in the association until it's country what the association will countenance like.

The authorised also said most quaternary or fivesome of the Big East schools are sworn to ownership the association together, but the another digit or threesome requirement to undergo where the association is headlike before a concern dedication is made.

Marinatto also said, "We had a articulate call with nonfootball activity members yesterday and every of them unanimously based their sport brethren in visit to advise the articulate nervy with the aforementioned scheme it's been."

Asked most crescendo the opening gift which is currently $5 million, he said, "We are pursuing that ... I desire we didn't hit an opening fee. I desire we could every verify everybody at their word. Obviously that's not the care with this category of issue. I don't undergo what's sufficiency to fortuity a promise. It's priceless, I guess."

He reiterated his intention to ready city and playwright the flooded 27 months titled for in the prescript that covers departures.

TCU, which will tie the association incoming year, had representatives at the meeting.

Afterwards Marinatto titled for formality amid the articulate madness: "This abstract has been rattling unsettling for so some people. I don't conceive anyone who has been participating in higher activity or intercollegiate competition is rattling chesty today of what's condemned locate over the terminal threesome weeks. I undergo nobody feels beatific most it. There's gotten be a mechanism, a protocol, a grouping to do every this. .. We should every be ashamed most this."