We are better than the P5

[warriorfan4life]

Ok, maybe my original thread was a bit acerbic, I still think the main message needs to be said. Also I should note I have been posting here for a long time and am not some Dayton troll getting his rocks off our poor tournament performance.

The reality is any school that isn't a P5 school is in the same boat. That doesn't mean we can't win national championships, but we will never be favored to do so. Unless we start accepting 30k+ students we will never get the amount of $ that the public schools do. I am fine with that, having been a Xavier fan my whole life. But I think BE, A-10 and AAC fans need to realize that we will always be the Davids to the P5 Goliath. And this is new to the C7, but it is the truth.

The Fox contract alone separates us from the A-10 and American. The BE will have zero issue with cost of attendance, while I anticipate it being a major headache at a minimum and quite possibly a nonstarter for everyone outside of the Power 6 and maybe the American and Mountain West (many conferences may try it at the outset, but I believe that few will truly afford it long-term). I wish the Big East had an equal seat to the table as the Football Five, and frankly they deserve it given the resources and tradition of the league. However, it will have no issue keeping up with any Football Five financial mandates (and there is enough resistance and belief of the amateurism ideal from conferences like the Pac 12 and B1G to ensure that any reforms are within reason).

The schools and Fox need to continually improve marketing and also smoothly transition into the digital age. I think Fox should offer a subscription digital component of FS1/FS2 on Roku and other streaming devices to reach out to the cord cutters. It likely will never equal the ESPN ratings (especially in the near-term), but there are many different methods today to attract viewers and subsequently increase attendance.

It will be difficult for any of Villanova, Georgetown, or Marquette (the three likeliest national champions from the league) to compete for national championships, but it is within the realm of possibility if a numbers of factors work out. Frankly, that has always been the case, and if anything it is more realistic now with the higher seeds available from winning a respected league (and easier path to go with that). Georgetown's 2014 recruiting class and Marquette's 2015 recruiting class are excellent foundations with their numbers and quality, and Nova has two bona fide studs coming in with Brunson and Spellman. The conference as a whole has recruited at the level of a top league, and I do not expect that to change with the coaches currently in charge. In fact, there is significant untapped potential at DePaul, St. John's, and to an extent Seton Hall. If the league keeps putting 5-6 teams in the NCAA's with multiple protected (top four) seeds, tournament success will follow.

[JOPO]

One thing I would love to see is the basketball budgets (not overall athletic budgets as that is skewed depending on the number of sports a school sponsors not to mention the insane amount spent on football) of the Power 6. I think that could be very telling.

[DudeAnon]

You would also be amazed (or maybe would not) at how many posters sign up with a name that implies fandom of a certain school... let's use a made up moniker like HoyaFan as an example, but then their first post is a manifesto about how the BigEast needs to expand and Dayton and VCU are the schools we should add. And when I trace the IPs back, HoyaFan just happens to be posting from Dayton or Richmond. Not joking, there were probably 8-10 over the weekend alone.

That is sad.