BEX wrote:JPSchmack wrote:. (Not to mention, had Dayton been a Big East member the last two years and performed exactly the same, it would be 7 additional units for the BE, roughly $12-13 million, but also $12-13 million LESS for the Atlantic 10).
Baloney. they wouldn't have made the dance either year if they were in the BE. They finished 6th in the a-10 last year and were the last team in from a weak A-10 this yr.
gosports1 wrote:id like to see the minutes from the C7 meetings discussing expansion. the notes from the meetings after the initial ACC raid of the old BE i found very interesting
BEX wrote:JPSchmack wrote:. (Not to mention, had Dayton been a Big East member the last two years and performed exactly the same, it would be 7 additional units for the BE, roughly $12-13 million, but also $12-13 million LESS for the Atlantic 10).
Baloney. they wouldn't have made the dance either year if they were in the BE. They finished 6th in the a-10 last year and were the last team in from a weak A-10 this yr.
chopper wrote:BEX wrote:JPSchmack wrote:. (Not to mention, had Dayton been a Big East member the last two years and performed exactly the same, it would be 7 additional units for the BE, roughly $12-13 million, but also $12-13 million LESS for the Atlantic 10).
Baloney. they wouldn't have made the dance either year if they were in the BE. They finished 6th in the a-10 last year and were the last team in from a weak A-10 this yr.
If Dayton had been added to the BE, then the odds are Xavier or some other team would not have even made the field of 64 or potentially gotten to the Sweet 16.
.Bluejay wrote:gosports1 wrote:id like to see the minutes from the C7 meetings discussing expansion. the notes from the meetings after the initial ACC raid of the old BE i found very interesting
I think you have accidentally stumbled upon the reason why the university presidents will only seriously consider private schools when it comes to expansion. As long as the entity is made up of all privates, there will be no access to meeting minutes, internal emails or anything else. I thought the same thing when somebody here posted the story about UAB dropping football with all of the internal emails among UAB personnel (acquired by via a Freedom of Information Act request) laid bare for the whole world to read.
This group values its privacy greatly. That is why, IMO, it would take a huge state school like UConn before they add a public. Wichita St and VCU have fine basketball programs, but I can't see the university presidents voluntarily giving up their privacy to add one or both of those schools any time soon. There is a lot more going on here...
I also want to comment on one thing that Frank the Tank said. I disagree strongly that there is a great desire by this group of presidents to expand. In fact, I think the contrary is true. I also don't believe that the offer from Fox to pay more if two more schools were added is still on the table. I know it was discussed initially, but we haven't heard anything about it since...and I suspect with the ratings, Fox is probably not as eager to be as loose with the purse strings unless a big name like UConn were to be made available. With no extra money from Fox, there is no reason to expand now. Perhaps when the pool of NCAA tourney credits builds up or we are a lot closer to the contract renewal period the environment would change, but financially it is just a dumb idea to do it right now.
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