The Big East has invited Villanova, the defending FCS champion, to the conference’s football table. On the surface, it would make sense and it does preserve the very important basketball dynamic. The football side has its ninth team and members no longer have to schedule that always tricky 12th game/fifth non-conference game. That means, for most, a guaranteed seventh (eighth?) home game, more revenue generated from playing host and less money spent paying teams to come to campus.

In short, more money in everyone’s pockets.

Then again, Villanova would take a slice of everyone’s revenue sharing prize. And the Wildcats would have to spend, spend, spend to fund a a scholarship endowment that gets them from the FCS limit of 63 scholrships to the FBS limit of 85. Oh, and they’ll add to football facilities. And find a palce to play, which probably means paying rent somewhere. And … well, it’s not as simple and certain is it may appear.