stever20 wrote:MUAvalanche wrote:stever20 wrote:About Conference USA back in 2005 and 2003- they absolutely were not a power conference...
2005- in Ken Pom- they were #9 conference
2003- in Ken Pom- they were #7 conference
CUSA was half a power conference at the time. UofL, Cincy, MU, DePaul, Charlotte, SLU, Memphis and UAB made tournament appearances and formed a group that was competitive with power conferences. The remaining teams (Houston, ECU, Tulane, S. Miss, USF, TCU) did not help basketball. Think AAC with 4 nonFB schools to enhance basketball.
2005- Louisville, Cincy, Charlotte, UAB made the tourney.
2003- Marquette, Memphis, Louisville, and Cincy made the tourney.
In the last 4 years-
2002- 3 teams made the tourney
2003- 4 teams made the tourney
2004- 6 teams made the tourney
2005- 4 teams made the tourney
17 teams- or 4.25 per year out of 14 teams. So that's barely half of the power teams.
jaxalum wrote:Out of curiosity I looked up the following using New York City as the Big East HQ/"center" and used Creighton as a comparable in terms of time and travel distance:
NY to Spokane= 2566 miles/37.5 hrs
NY to Omaha= 1256 miles/19.5 hrs
I played a college sport (tennis) where it could work I believe, but I have no idea about the other olympic sports. I'm sure the powers that be have crunched the numbers endlessly to try and make this work somehow, as the Zags are far and away the best fit. Except for that whole Spokane thing. I could see why Gonzaga would jump at the chance to be in the Big East as it would be considerably more money, better exposure in and around the media capital, open up fertile recruiting grounds in the east, and they would retain their native recruiting grounds (so far away from other conference members) and become that much more attractive to area talent due to their new conference affiliation. I would love to have them in the league, I just don't know how feasible it is.
myopicraiderfan wrote:Since 1991 through last years NCAA basketball fund payout Gonzaga has earned 34.3M from NCAA shares and received 6.82M as part of the WCC. The increase in TV revenue and NCAA basketball fund revenue would make it a no brainer for them to accept. The problem is going to be would Fox increase the payout for Gonzaga and school X? If school X was UConn, yes. Anyone else I don't know. If Fox doesn't increase the payout would each school be willing to sacrifice money to include Gonzaga plus someone not name UConn. That I doubt. The best thing for the BE to do is wait. If the contract is coming due in two years and Fox says we want school x,y, or z for local market, league competition, or inventory reasons then yes you add them because it makes financial sense to add them. I know every school wants to join, but there is zero reason right now. Lets see how the landscape changes in the next 8 years and if it does then adapt to the change.
topdog wrote:If Gonzaga gets added the conference name should be changed to the Very Big East.
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