tornado
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SLU is like the fat girl who feels better about herself because she has some good looking sisters.....
nice comparison...
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SLU is like the fat girl who feels better about herself because she has some good looking sisters.....
Recently I ran through likely realignment scenarios. It seems to me that Marquette, DePaul, and the other Big East castoffs would be more likely to try and join forces with select A-10 powerhouses, leaving St Louis behind (as well as the basketball-only MVC members).
The reason that DePaul may want to leave the Big East has to do with location then anything else then why would they join the A-10? If it has to do with being able to compete then you have to really question their administration. I believe realignment is probably right around the corner. There is too much money at stake to ignore the current status and there will be some programs who will want to push their agenda and exploit it.
Well the issue would be if DePaul (and St Louis and Marquette for that matter) would want to compete in a revised conference that includes the Big East basketball-only members, Xavier, Dayton, and a couple other A-10ers. The other option would be to join with other midwest teams (Bradley, Creighton, Butler, other random teams with similar stature).
Add in Butler and Wichita St and you have a pretty great conference there. Not suure if you need a tenth team in there.
TAS - one of the complaints teams have about A10 and Big East is the crazy travel. Given that why do you think SLU or Marquette would prefer a conf with all the basketball only BE teams and east coast A10 teams to a conference such as the one described above?
Lol yes we could. I've already spent much more time than makes any sense as I suspectyou have. I've done some weird stuff trying to figure out possible scenarios. Maybe I'll share some with you via pm to avoid cluttering the board....
One semi off topic question for you: who's the best candidate for the big ten expansion. I keep hearing Missouri and Pittsburgh, but neither make a lot of sense to me as I cannot see how that'd be better for either school than the conference they're in. I feel ND makes the most sense, though I could see how the Big East would work as well or better for the Irish.
So, in effect the step up to big ten football is a bigger in terms of benefit than the step down in basketball?
The other program that makes immediate sense to me is Cincinnati but they don't seem often mentioned. They're obviously lower profile than ND Cuse Pitt or Rutgers but they have a need to improve their conference. Memphis fits the same bill but don't have the record of succes in football that cincy does.
Okay, I follow.
Another wild card here-- do you think the NCAA could relent and allow football championships for conferences with 10+ members?
I just ran across some talk on boards about DePaul and their coaching search....and it centers apparently on the fact that some of the candidates being wooed are asking hard about DePaul's long term committment to the Big East...
apparently there is indeed a little bit of rumble behind the scenes that we are not hearing much about, and it involves perhaps BOTH DePaul and Saint Louis leaving the conferences they are presently in, and trying to form a new conference or get into some other conference....and guess what name comes up the most...
the MVC............
schools with stroing basketball programs and no football (Marquette, DePaul, SLU, Creighton, and even Bradley...) seem to get the most mention in regards to some new conference...
but I still just don't see it happening any time soon.......
It's easy for the Pac10 but it'll be a tall order for
the Big East especially if the Big Ten steals a team.
It's easy for the Pac10 but it'll be a tall order for
the Big East especially if the Big Ten steals a team.
Big East then may go after BC again! I heard that as a rumor anyway. What would happen to Villanova and Georgetown which do have a football teams just not D-I? I'd be surprised if the Big East would want to cut St. John's out of the picture. An only football conference for the Big East is very unlikely. Cutting some teams for teams with football programs though may happen and the two most likely would be DePaul and Marquette.