Brian

Your question was cut off, but I do think there will be some positives on next year's team. Lower hype and expectations will obviously prevail, but there will be plenty of talent.

It will be interesting to see how the freshmen perform. JVP and Markus Kennedy have strong bodies and it will be interesting to see how they react to Big East play.

Armwood will certainly get a chance to break out and it would be great for the team to see him use his athleticism to become a scoring threat up front.

It will be a growing year, not unlike the 2007 or 2008 season. The goal is to get better.

It is still SLIGHTLY more likely than not that Villanova will get in. They are working through the issues that the football members raised and haven't quite given up as far as I can tell. I can't comment right now as to the likelihood of those issues ever being resolved in a favorable manner, however.

I suspect that there will never be universal support for Villanova's membership among the football schools, but there may be "enough" support if they present a suitable revised plan.

The basketball interests in the conference don't want to add an 18th member, however, so the top option for a 10th football member may be nobody. There could be an issue getting an 18th all-sports member approved if Villanova is willing to move up as the 10th member.

Assuming they DO seek a 10th member from outside the conference, it seems like Houston and UCF are the top candidates at the moment. UCF brings a little more football credibility these days, but Houston has a better (bigger) market, and seems more of a viable option after the TCU addition. TCU would gain a "local" rival and a travel partner to help manage their costs. Houston's best argument is television -- conference expansion is ALL about television dollars.

UCF is probably the better option competitively in basketball at the moment, and I am sure that would be considered as well. Though, Houston does have SOME basketball tradition. Neither is really a slam-dunk, however, which brings us back to the idea of staying with 9 members.

As for the Big XII, I think their new TV deal pretty much nailed that coffin shut. Unless the Big Ten were to swoop in and make that conference unstable again, there isn't much that the Big East can offer other BCS-conference schools financially to lure them in right now. Maybe if they hit a home-run with the next Big East TV deal it could happen.

It is an option, but not one that the Villanova Trustees are likely to consider. The move up to the Big East works as well as it does only because the revenue streams are so strong in a major conference. The Big East generates 9 to 10 times more revenue than the MAC and about twice as much as Conference USA.

Furthermore, the football "brand" might suffer in a conference like the MAC, which rated lower than Villanova's FCS conference in the Sagarin ratings this season.

Hopefully I'll get a few more opportunities. It's not "radio," but I'll be doing a podcast tomorrow with www.louisvillesportslive.podbean.com

The crime was murder (but I didn't do it) and I'm going to escape by throwing another prisoner onto the fence in a way that would short out the circuitry (and ironically killing the other inmate, despite my innocence from the murder that put me on death row in the first place).

Don't worry though, the dead inmate will have already lost his last appeal and be scheduled for the electric chair the next day anyway.

"My dad's a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long."

My dad actually has my dream job right now, he's retired.

The NCAA Division I football championship this year.

Of course. Why would you even ask that question? A better question would be whether I would go back in time to give someone a wet willy. The answer to that one would also be yes, and the person in both instances would be Charlemagne.

Both. Seriously.

... and it's only marginally connected to the amount of beer I've been drinking.

All-time? Cream. Recently? Robert Randolph and the Family Band or the Roots.

Just two right now, but I am planning to accumulate quite a few more.

Yes, I resolved to never ever ever drink again. I broke that resolution within 6 hours of making it.

Sorry I didn't see this until now. I wore my skull-and-crossbones bowtie for Christmas Eve dinner. I played it casual on Christmas day.

Um? No idea what this is referring to, but I'm starting my own team. Team Brian. Join up.

That would probably be a better question for @MikeOnThePhils. If I had to guess? 5

I don't eat fish (maybe tuna), but short answer: no.

Hardest: Probably Calc II, but only because I didn't really take Calc I (I took something that COUNTED as Calc I, but it most certainly was not), other than that, probably Genetics, but that was the beginning of my interest in bow-ties, so at least I got something out of it.

Easiest: Public Speaking. There was no text, no reading, and all I had to do was show up twice a week and talk. I'm good at that.

Best: Kevin Miles' (who now teaches at Earlham because the Philosophy dept. denied his tenure) Plato and Aristotle course. Thanks to that, I can can pretend to know something about greek philosophers.

I'm not fluent in portuguese, so I'm just going to assume this question is about crackers. I don't really like crackers, but I have been known to use some saltines in my soup from time to time. Thanks for participating!

Eu não sou fluente no português, assim que eu estou indo supr que esta pergunta é sobre biscoitos. Eu não gosto realmente de biscoitos, mas eu fui conhecido para usar alguns saltines em minha sopa do tempo ao tempo. Obrigado participando!

No. I thought about signing up for that at one point, but then I realized that Villanova was probably better off without the BrianIsAwesome Reality Tour...