Big East extends six invites

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    The Big East Conference will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

    The conference's member presidents, meeting in Philadelphia, voted unanimously Tuesday to extend invitations to football-only and all-sports members. Commissioner John Marinatto declined to name the schools being targeted.

    He did say he expected the targeted schools to accept, but added that there are still details to work out with each institution.

    "As we've learned over the last two months, don't believe anything anybody tells you. Nothing's done until it is over," Marinatto said. "So I'm obviously being very cautious and that's why I'm reluctant to say names of schools.

    He did acknowledge the league intends to expand west.

    Read more: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7177969/big-east-invite-six-football-according-report
     

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