adoraz wrote:I think most people agree that Gonzaga would need at least 1 (maybe 3?) travel partners on the west coast.
This may sound like a crazy idea and I don't really endorse it, but what about Washington St or Oregon St? They will almost certainly get left behind and if they agree to deemphasize football and go big on basketball that may be more enticing to them than going to a G5 league. Now yes, I fully understand that these have been BAD basketball schools and do not fit the Big East profile. I get that. But Gonzaga would be the prize while those schools would be filler, and also would be much closer travel partners than St. Mary's or whatever. Further, since those schools have been P5/P6 for a long-time it might give the Big East more credibility than if they were to add WCC schools (outside of Gonzaga). They're also of course state schools so I assume their alumni bases would be bigger than the other options.
Again, I don't really endorse the idea but if we needed a pod of 4 and were to add Gonzaga, St. Mary's, Washington St and Oregon St then maybe that could benefit the league. It wouldn't drive up our revenue average per team but it would create a west coast time slot which could still help overall. Fox/FS1 would then have basketball content for all hours and the Big East would gain a lot of followers in the west who may tune into earlier east/midwest BE games.
Some other ideas: San Diego St, San Fran and UNLV. They're decent basketball schools but they're not very close to Gonzaga so I'm not sure if they would qualify as travel partners, but at the very least they'd be in the mix for a bid most years.
My preference is IF it could work then only add Gonzaga for now. If not then only one other school (probably St. Mary's or San Fran? I like SDSU too). It's a shame that basketball on the west coast has been so bad and nobody outside of Gonzaga (besides an unavailable school like Arizona) would be a slam dunk.
gtmoBlue wrote:365 Sports panel is struggling with the 'How' the acc might defeat their GoR.
This guy (gold n blue guy) says seven schools are onboard with dissolving the ACC GoR, including Notre Dame. Eight are needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCIQqyr1hCU
Where's my popcorn??
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