Gopher+RamFan wrote:Confused by a few things- 1. Dayton having a better 10 year run than VCU? 2. The same people putting down a VCU addition due to Shaka Smart possibly leaving (at the time) but saying the BE should add Davidson when Bob is 65 years old? 3. Talk of adding davidson when most of the discussion I've had on this thread over the years was looking for a large fanbase and sized school (Davidson has 1,600 students or so).
I think the Big East stays at 10 until a "candidate" forces the decision. Dayton makes a couple of S16 runs and weathers the post- Archie Miller era (it's coming). Or VCU shows it can compete by going to the S16 or better with Will Wade. SLU needs serious work, I hate to bring it up, but years ago I posted on here that SLu would be ok trouble after Rick Majerus' recruits graduated. UR needs a couple of deep tourney runs to be a serious contender.
Of course these are all on the court considerations, that's all I'm qualified to comment on.
Xudash wrote:Gopher+RamFan wrote:Confused by a few things- 1. Dayton having a better 10 year run than VCU? 2. The same people putting down a VCU addition due to Shaka Smart possibly leaving (at the time) but saying the BE should add Davidson when Bob is 65 years old? 3. Talk of adding davidson when most of the discussion I've had on this thread over the years was looking for a large fanbase and sized school (Davidson has 1,600 students or so).
I think the Big East stays at 10 until a "candidate" forces the decision. Dayton makes a couple of S16 runs and weathers the post- Archie Miller era (it's coming). Or VCU shows it can compete by going to the S16 or better with Will Wade. SLU needs serious work, I hate to bring it up, but years ago I posted on here that SLu would be ok trouble after Rick Majerus' recruits graduated. UR needs a couple of deep tourney runs to be a serious contender.
Of course these are all on the court considerations, that's all I'm qualified to comment on.
Gopher, your bolded sentence implies that the Big East is operating from a point of weakness today. How will a candidate "force the decision" at the Big East's current rate of overall success?
NJRedman wrote:Xudash wrote:Gopher+RamFan wrote:Confused by a few things- 1. Dayton having a better 10 year run than VCU? 2. The same people putting down a VCU addition due to Shaka Smart possibly leaving (at the time) but saying the BE should add Davidson when Bob is 65 years old? 3. Talk of adding davidson when most of the discussion I've had on this thread over the years was looking for a large fanbase and sized school (Davidson has 1,600 students or so).
I think the Big East stays at 10 until a "candidate" forces the decision. Dayton makes a couple of S16 runs and weathers the post- Archie Miller era (it's coming). Or VCU shows it can compete by going to the S16 or better with Will Wade. SLU needs serious work, I hate to bring it up, but years ago I posted on here that SLu would be ok trouble after Rick Majerus' recruits graduated. UR needs a couple of deep tourney runs to be a serious contender.
Of course these are all on the court considerations, that's all I'm qualified to comment on.
Gopher, your bolded sentence implies that the Big East is operating from a point of weakness today. How will a candidate "force the decision" at the Big East's current rate of overall success?
I agree with him dash, if Dayton or some other A-10 school pulls a Butler making national title games and maybe actually wins the whole thing then thats forcing the discussion. Dayton with a national title is hard to ignore. A final four might bring it up in a more serious conversation but a final or national title would definitely make us have a serious discussion about expanding.
Xudash wrote:Gopher+RamFan wrote:Confused by a few things- 1. Dayton having a better 10 year run than VCU? 2. The same people putting down a VCU addition due to Shaka Smart possibly leaving (at the time) but saying the BE should add Davidson when Bob is 65 years old? 3. Talk of adding davidson when most of the discussion I've had on this thread over the years was looking for a large fanbase and sized school (Davidson has 1,600 students or so).
I think the Big East stays at 10 until a "candidate" forces the decision. Dayton makes a couple of S16 runs and weathers the post- Archie Miller era (it's coming). Or VCU shows it can compete by going to the S16 or better with Will Wade. SLU needs serious work, I hate to bring it up, but years ago I posted on here that SLu would be ok trouble after Rick Majerus' recruits graduated. UR needs a couple of deep tourney runs to be a serious contender.
Of course these are all on the court considerations, that's all I'm qualified to comment on.
Gopher, your bolded sentence implies that the Big East is operating from a point of weakness today. How will a candidate "force the decision" at the Big East's current rate of overall success?
Xudash wrote:NJRedman wrote:Xudash wrote:
Gopher, your bolded sentence implies that the Big East is operating from a point of weakness today. How will a candidate "force the decision" at the Big East's current rate of overall success?
I agree with him dash, if Dayton or some other A-10 school pulls a Butler making national title games and maybe actually wins the whole thing then thats forcing the discussion. Dayton with a national title is hard to ignore. A final four might bring it up in a more serious conversation but a final or national title would definitely make us have a serious discussion about expanding.
I'm fine with that logic. I'm just having a tough time imagining an A10 team being able to accomplish all that before a Big East program does.
We already know that we're not waiting up nights worrying about expansion.
And the flip side here is that the Big East keeps rolling and getting stronger. Let's say that we (more likely) punch one or n of us through to the F4 and one of us meets VCU there. Does VCU then get an invite that summer? Do you remix a successful potion due to external factors? Maybe there are reasons for doing that. Then again, maybe not.
augkash wrote:I find it funny when the league started for Dayton to get in they had to win some NCAA tournament games. They have won 5 in two years now it's not good enough. Now for them to get in they have to win it all. Lol I'm sure Dash will say He had dinner with Xavier's president and he said Dayton is not getting in
augkash wrote:I find it funny when the league started for Dayton to get in they had to win some NCAA tournament games. They have won 5 in two years now it's not good enough. Now for them to get in they have to win it all. Lol I'm sure Dash will say He had dinner with Xavier's president and he said Dayton is not getting in
NJRedman wrote:Noonzy wrote:The presidents of the BE schools don't want to add any state schools. They can't compete with the money the state school get from the state.
Thats not true, we'd take UConn in a NY second.
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