But because of the movies and cartoons, I bet Excalibur will not get Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Colossus. Like X-Treme X-Men, Excalibur will be a bone to Claremont to keep his characters that would be otherwise killed off (Sage, Bishop, Cannonball, Husk, etc)

No, he didn't care Bishop and Husk but he would like writing those two.

I honestly think both XSE and Excalibur will fail as well. Marvel should just stick to the X-Men. Has everyone noticed that all of the team spin offs of the X-Men, FF, and Avengers all eventually go under?