R Jay wrote:Bill Marsh wrote:WaitingPatiently wrote:Location may not be a problem for MBB, but if they were coming on board for all sports it becomes a huge problem for all teams in the non-revenue sports.
Also 20 conf games hurts the conf RPI a great deal. The fewer zero-sum games you play the better off you are for that. 20 conf games really, really hurts the bubble teams. Even moves some that may be in to the bubble.
No, it's not a problem for all teams in non-revenue sports. For many of them, conference competition means a single tournament or all-conference track meet or the like. It's only a problem for a few non-revenue sports which play full com fervency schedules. There are many ways to handle the schedule to ease the travel burden, but if this is truly a basketball-first conference, then those problems should be solvable. The revenue provided by M BB should provide the financial resources to help with the solutions. Bottom line is that non-revenue sports should be able to work with one long distance trip per year. The return that Gonzaga would bring to the conference would be worth it.
I know a lot about RPI but I have no idea why a 20 game schedule would hurt the conference RPI. Nonetheless, the worst that would happen is that they retain the 18 game schedule and everyone matches up with a few teams only once each season. Rotate the singleton match ups and everyone still plays everyone H & H most of the time. The Big 10 worked with an 11 team league and an 18 game schedule for 20 years, so it's certainly doable. The advantages of adding Gonzaga are simply too great to turn down for a few scheduling challenges.
Than why isn't Gonzaga in the conference? If there are so many pluses shouldn't they be in already?
Edrick wrote:There is absolutely no chance the conference expands in the next three years and a miniscule chance of expanding in the next 10.
NO ONE wants expansion and there are no candidates. BYU and Gonzaga are the only two programs in the country that fit, but they are four time zones away. There is no one. There will not be expansion. Period.
"Hopefully can have a multibid year"
There will never be a year this league doesn't do that, it's set up for 5/6 now. And back to the original point, that's 60% of the conference earning NCAA credits to be distributed to 10 programs. More mouths to feed isn't what anyone is looking for.
Edrick wrote:There is absolutely no chance the conference expands in the next three years and a miniscule chance of expanding in the next 10.
NO ONE wants expansion and there are no candidates. BYU and Gonzaga are the only two programs in the country that fit, but they are four time zones away. There is no one. There will not be expansion. Period.
"Hopefully can have a multibid year"
There will never be a year this league doesn't do that, it's set up for 5/6 now. And back to the original point, that's 60% of the conference earning NCAA credits to be distributed to 10 programs. More mouths to feed isn't what anyone is looking for.
Bill Marsh wrote:I know a lot about RPI but I have no idea why a 20 game schedule would hurt the conference RPI. Nonetheless, the worst that would happen is that they retain the 18 game schedule and everyone matches up with a few teams only once each season. Rotate the singleton match ups and everyone still plays everyone H & H most of the time. The Big 10 worked with an 11 team league and an 18 game schedule for 20 years, so it's certainly doable. The advantages of adding Gonzaga are simply too great to turn down for a few scheduling challenges.
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