Outside the Big East

[marquette]

First and foremost, my guess is that Ackerman and the Presidents are serious about being patient; they will not pursue expansion in any form for the next few years.

Were expansion talk to flame up again, the only A10 team in the midwest that makes any sense at this point is SLU, both for the program, including its facilities and the school, as well as for its television market. Otherwise, balance has to be a big part of the problem: who could possibly make sense as #12, especially if the Big East looks for East/West balance.

UD is a mid-major through and through. UD's program has no resume; it's that simple. UD has nothing to offer, given their terrible performance in the A10; they don't deserve consideration. The Dayton television market certainly is inconsequential.

This isn't an expansion thread. We're just talking about other teams we happen to be interested in (which is why Harvard came up). Hopefully we can keep that talk to the expansion thread.

[cm5yz6]

*sigh

[ChelseaFriar]

Not to dwell on what could have been, but PC beat Harvard in an exhibition game with Dunn and Austin active. Granted, exhibitions don't mean much...

[Jet915]

Not to dwell on what could have been, but PC beat Harvard in an exhibition game with Dunn and Austin active. Granted, exhibitions don't mean much...

Yeah, too bad cause Creighton beat Iowa State in a closed door scrimmage as well....

[paulxu]

Is VCU a Catholic or Private school?

[ivet]

Is VCU a Catholic or Private school?

A Large public school.

[Chalmers0]

Not to dwell on what could have been, but PC beat Harvard in an exhibition game with Dunn and Austin active. Granted, exhibitions don't mean much...

Yeah, too bad cause Creighton beat Iowa State in a closed door scrimmage as well....

I'm ok with it...Xavier reportedly lost to Ohio haha

In regards to Dayton, their game with Richmond today is huge. They lose and the are 1-2 with VCU coming to town.

[NJRedman]

First and foremost, my guess is that Ackerman and the Presidents are serious about being patient; they will not pursue expansion in any form for the next few years.

Were expansion talk to flame up again, the only A10 team in the midwest that makes any sense at this point is SLU, both for the program, including its facilities and the school, as well as for its television market. Otherwise, balance has to be a big part of the problem: who could possibly make sense as #12, especially if the Big East looks for East/West balance.

UD is a mid-major through and through. UD's program has no resume; it's that simple. UD has nothing to offer, given their terrible performance in the A10; they don't deserve consideration. The Dayton television market certainly is inconsequential.

Well we all know how XU fans feel about Dayton, like it or not you guys are WAY to biased for this discussion. They don't deserve consideration? Yeah, like I said, way to biased for this.

[cm5yz6]

Not to dwell on what could have been, but PC beat Harvard in an exhibition game with Dunn and Austin active. Granted, exhibitions don't mean much...

Yeah, too bad cause Creighton beat Iowa State in a closed door scrimmage as well....

I'm ok with it...Xavier reportedly lost to Ohio haha

In regards to Dayton, their game with Richmond today is huge. They lose and the are 1-2 with VCU coming to town.

In regards to Richmond, their game with Dayton today is pretty big. They win, and they are 2-1 with UMass coming to town.

[ChelseaFriar]

Amazing how UMass has narrowly escaped with quite a few wins this year. They seem to have some positive energy in that program right now.