robinreed wrote:ANDREW LUCK QUITS AS WVU AD. WILL BECOME EXEC AT NCAA
Luck was a major proponent of expansion in the Big 12 and spoke in public for such expansion. He is now leaving for the NCAA and will have little or no influence on the B12 in future. Does this mean that expansion in the Big 12 is done for? Luck was opposed by Texas (re expansion) and I suspect this will mean the B12 is less likely to expand.
What say you?
Westbrook#36 wrote:robinreed wrote:ANDREW LUCK QUITS AS WVU AD. WILL BECOME EXEC AT NCAA
Luck was a major proponent of expansion in the Big 12 and spoke in public for such expansion. He is now leaving for the NCAA and will have little or no influence on the B12 in future. Does this mean that expansion in the Big 12 is done for? Luck was opposed by Texas (re expansion) and I suspect this will mean the B12 is less likely to expand.
What say you?
The QB of the Indy Colts is quitting at WVU? What, he has a second job? Don't the Colts pay that well?
J/K, you mean Oliver Luck, Andrew's dad quit.
robinreed wrote:OLIVER LUCK QUITS AS WVU AD. WILL BECOME EXEC AT NCAA
Luck was a major proponent of expansion in the Big 12 and spoke in public for such expansion. He is now leaving for the NCAA and will have little or no influence on the B12 in future. Does this mean that expansion in the Big 12 is done for? Luck was opposed by Texas (re expansion) and I suspect this will mean the B12 is less likely to expand.
What say you?
NJRedman wrote:It doesn't change anything. WVU had little say in the conference anyway. The issues that league faces still exists.
Bill Marsh wrote:R Jay wrote:Geography? No fertile recruiting grounds? An unsubstantial market?
If the presidents thought that there was a benefit in adding them (and/or one of: SLU, Dayton, VCU, etc.) they'd already be in.
The geography problem is exaggerated. They're 2 hours in the air past Creighton.
Speaking of Creighton, they don't have a big market either. What they have in common with Gonzaga is the fact that they have a rabid fan base and sell out every game. What Gonzaga has that Creighton doesn't have is that Gonzaga is a household name brand.
Not a recruiting ground. Okay, I'll give you that. But I think that the Vig ?East has plenty of those with teams that don't have the positives that Gonzaga does.
So, the presidents haven't chosen to act in them? It's a well guarded secret that a college presidents have been known to be wrong at times. A partner to bring in with them would be make the scheduling a little easier, but it's not essential. Bring them in by themselves and.et the rest sort itself out. It's doable.
DeltaV wrote:Bill Marsh wrote:R Jay wrote:Geography? No fertile recruiting grounds? An unsubstantial market?
If the presidents thought that there was a benefit in adding them (and/or one of: SLU, Dayton, VCU, etc.) they'd already be in.
The geography problem is exaggerated. They're 2 hours in the air past Creighton.
Speaking of Creighton, they don't have a big market either. What they have in common with Gonzaga is the fact that they have a rabid fan base and sell out every game. What Gonzaga has that Creighton doesn't have is that Gonzaga is a household name brand.
Not a recruiting ground. Okay, I'll give you that. But I think that the Vig ?East has plenty of those with teams that don't have the positives that Gonzaga does.
So, the presidents haven't chosen to act in them? It's a well guarded secret that a college presidents have been known to be wrong at times. A partner to bring in with them would be make the scheduling a little easier, but it's not essential. Bring them in by themselves and.et the rest sort itself out. It's doable.
Right or wrong, if the C7 presidents had thought that Gonzaga was a viable option, they would have been part of the 'original 10' and we would be debating if SLU, Dayton, or VCU were the appropriate pair to go with whichever of Creighton/Butler didn't get the invite (I'm assuming Xavier would have been in).
They didn't, so we have the 10 schools that we have; and I think we should be happy with them. UConn isn't going to give up their dreams of P5 membership, and Duke isn't going to somehow decide to give up football and join a basketball-only conference.
Strange things are probably afoot with regards to the conferences, and in my opinion our best chance at survival is to stay nimble and ready to respond to changes. Neither loading ourselves down with travel commitments nor A10 teams is going to accomplish that. We stay the course, grow our brand, and make ourselves an attractive landing spot on the off chance that football realignment makes us an attractive landing spot for a strong basketball school left on the outside of the football world.
stever20 wrote:Even with VCU's "slow start" right now in the bracket matrix, they are a 6 seed. Higher than any Big East school not named Villanova. VCU has played the toughest schedule in the country right now- Tennessee, 10-0 Villanova, 8-1 Old Dominion, 9-0 Virginia, 9-1 Northern Iowa, 6-3 Oregon. Sorry but as much as you want them to go away, they just aren't.
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