When it comes to news regarding college sports, the sports departments of most TV stations come in somewhere ahead of Bleacher Report, message boards, and sports talk radio — but behind the Onion.

So, let’s wait and see a bit on this (via Deadspin).

Local 6 Sports Director David Pingalore is reporting that multiple college football sources have said that the University of Central Florida and Memphis could be invited to join the Big East conference as soon as next week.

Shocking. The same day an Orlando columnist makes the case — again — that the Big East should invite UCF to join there is a rumored story.

And of course, FedEx Chair, big time Memphis booster, and the father of the Memphis QB, Fred Smith has all but openly made an offer to pay the Big East any conference that will take Memphis.

There is no question, that of the options for Big East football expansion, UCF is really the best and only choice.

Just like everyone in the Big East would leave for any other BCS conference, no one in any other BCS conference would leave to go to the Big East

USF fans don’t want to see anyone else from C-USA come to the Big East. Especially UCF. I’m not particularly enthusiastic about Memphis in the conference.

I guess I have a hard time buying any of it right now. The only way they can really expand is to split from the basketball schools — whether completely or in some sort of weird alliance. I just don’t see the Big East leadership with the guts to do that.