now which conferences could that be?

excerpt from SI.com article:

Quote:...SI.com: When I asked fans over Twitter whether there were any specific subjects they wanted me to address with you, the No. 1 response by far was potential expansion plans. Is it on the horizon?

Marinatto: It's not in the immediate future. I don't think our membership has an appetite for it at this point, unless [going to 17 teams] happens to be something that brings value to football. If Penn State was interested in moving back to the East, we'd be interested in that because they bring value. We are only eight [in football], but I think it's an attractive situation because when our coaches are out there recruiting, they can sell players that their chance of earning a berth in a major bowl is more favorable. If you look over the last five years, almost every school has been in position to win our conference at some point.

What I'm hearing from people, interestingly, is they're looking at the [16-team league] model we created [in 2004], which we heard at the time was too big, and they're saying that the size has become a positive. People are talking about expanding to our size. It would be interesting if something we did out of necessity does become a model.......

None of the big power conferences are looking at expanding to 16 teams. My belief is that John Marinatto was referring to the Terry Holland idea for CUSA from a while back. Otherwise maybe the Atlantic 10 is looking at adding two more schools to alleviate travel costs.

He is just throwing out the idea that unnamed other leagues are looking at 16 to make it seem like the current Big East has some kind of perfect composition in my opinion. Nothing to see. One job of a conference commissioner is to put forth the best face for the media.

We know it's not the WAC. :)