We’ve heard the naysayers like Weston Bruner explain why the new Big East football conference wiill run into problems. 

The Baltimore Sports Report.com writer ”would be surprised if the Big East survived as a football conference if the automatic bids were eliminated.” 

SB Nation’s Cardiac Hill writes “I used to think the Big East could survive as a football conference, but now I’m not so sure.”

But the new Big East football conference is going to survive and succeed, and there’s two main reasons to believe it will: For one, with the leadership of commissioner John Marinatto, it added schools in some of the largest and fastest growing marketing areas in the country.