GoldenWarrior11 wrote:St. Bonaventure? The program that has been to NCAA tournament a total of six times, whose last Sweet 16 was almost 50 years ago, and - whose hypothetical accepted membership into the Big East - would bring not only the smallest endowment and athletic budget but also the smallest enrollment and alumni base?
Realignment talk really does bring out the illogical and nonsensical.
We aren't expanding anytime soon. If, by some rare happenstance where the Presidents, Fox and Val say that we are, it certainly wouldn't be with St. Bonaventure (no disrespect to the Bonnies, but it just isn't happening).
trephin wrote:JPSchmack has admitted multiple times that the probability of St Bonaventure being invited to the Big East is infinitesimal. His belief that the Bonnies with the aid of Big East membership would capture hearts and minds from buffalo to rochester as well as the value of increased probability of additional NCAA bids at this current time for the conference can be doubted.
No one, however, has disproved the logic of his idea - namely that
1) by adding a school(s) to the bottom of the conference
2) that schedules and wins OOC to manipulate RPI
3) would significantly improve the NCAA tournament resumes of the teams above them
4) creating a high probability of reducing the "bubble" teams and increasing the "lock" teams
5) thus earning potentially a significant amount of money for the conference and per team
The conference distribution of NCAA payouts has not been stated as of yet.
There is a max number of schools that can be added before seeing diminished returns.
Secondarily, he and sheg have proposed a 13 school schedule to compensate losing the 10 school round robin.
trephin wrote:JPSchmack has admitted multiple times that the probability of St Bonaventure being invited to the Big East is infinitesimal. His belief that the Bonnies with the aid of Big East membership would capture hearts and minds from buffalo to rochester as well as the value of increased probability of additional NCAA bids at this current time for the conference can be doubted.
No one, however, has disproved the logic of his idea - namely that
1) by adding a school(s) to the bottom of the conference
2) that schedules and wins OOC to manipulate RPI
3) would significantly improve the NCAA tournament resumes of the teams above them
4) creating a high probability of reducing the "bubble" teams and increasing the "lock" teams
5) thus earning potentially a significant amount of money for the conference and per team
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