by NovaBall » Sat May 16, 2015 4:05 pm
Some recent posts from the nova football fans:
Dcfranklin is one of the biggest haters of the big east out there (he doesn't like nova hoops much either, not a fan of jay):
I recommend leveraging our premier market position into a Power 5 conference looking to add a big time/ big city program. St. John's and Gtown should do the same. I would love us to re-join our former rivals Syracuse, UCONN, Pitt, ND & BC in a hypothetical ACC North to combat the incursion of the Big 10 into the Northeast. Leaving DC, Philly and NYC exposed places the ACC in the same position the old Big East was in 15 years ago. The Big 10's take no prisoners approach mandates some new thinking. So far the Big 10 has stolen Maryland, Rutgers and Johns Hopkins. Is the ACC willing to sit back passively and wait for the next shoe to drop?
Vuwc2003
I am telling you right now, the ACC would much rather take a Villanova over a Memphis. The ACC gets raided again, and trust me, a lot of those ACC football schools would make the jump into an SEC, Big10 or Big12 YESTERDAY, we become a realistic option. There are only so many targets out there. In the ACC academics matter. Will it happen? I give it a better shot than most because I do see conference expansion continuing down the road and the ACC is the target for the SEC, Big10 and Big12.
It just goes back to the stadium situation, something we CAN figure out. Expand PPL, play a couple of games at Citizens and a couple of games at The Linc, Hell, we can play a game or 2 at Franklin Field. Southern Boys can make a weekend out of it in Philly.
I just don't think all of this is as outrageous as some others on this board make it out to be. If we were located in the middle of nowhere and had to start from scratch because we didn't have a football team, OK, I get it, wishful thinking. But we have a VERY competitive FCS football team who already showed it can compete in the ACC (played very well AT BC and should have beat Syracuse AT The Dome) and we have an AMAZING basketball program not to mention Jay Wright.
Again, the ACC would rather take Villanova and Philadelphia over a school like Memphis. Trust me.
Nova525
This is the kind of thinking Villanova needs. Visionary. Not merely a hope for Villanova programs but a realistic view of how TV and institutional missions are going to continue to divide current conference alignments. Be ready, willing and imaginative enough to fill the holes created by the change.
Dcfranklin and his delusions again
Further to the point re: forward thinking, I don't think LA based Fox Sports is the optimum home for VU, Gtown & St. Johns. I realize they were there when the BE imploded, and we were lucky they were and grateful for the unprecedented coverage, BUT... they are 3,000 miles away from our east coast base. The BE is essentially an afternoon drive/Saturday morning thing for them. I think they would be better served to focus on the PAC 12 and let the BE go. Philly based Comcast or Stamford CT based NBC Sports would make a better home for our brand. NY based CBS Sports Network is another option. The BE is too midwest and too mid-major for my taste. We need to start lobbying behind the scenes for a Big City push into whichever Power 5 conference will listen. The options appear limited to the ACC and Big 12, both of which are somewhat betwixt and between what they once were and what they will be in the future (assuming they have a future as presently constituted).
Please note that I am not in any way in the same camp. Big east basketball is an amazing platform for villanova basketball. I wish we would dump our money pitt football program
Oh yeah, and when the florida coaching job was available and the 5 year, $20 mill package to jay wright was being floated around, many nova fans said time to cut back in football and give jay his raise. Let'sginova and others argued that they would rather lose jay than cut back a little bit in football spending. Just to show how f'ed some nova football fans' priorities are