CrawfishBucket wrote:This talk about geography ruling out Gonzaga puzzles me.
As you can see by the map, the Big East is a far flung conference. When Creighton was invited, the membership made a commitment to long flights for the baseball/volleyball/LAX/etc/ teams. So, what does it matter if the Big East adds another long flight by adding Gonzaga?
Nebraska is not a contiguous state. Washington is not a contiguous state. So, if there are islands already in the conference, maintaining some footprint ideal really is not so ideal, in my opinion.
Gonzaga would arguably be the #1 team in the conference from Day 1. Those kinds of additions just aren't usually accessible to any conference that is looking to expand. I hear people say Gonzaga needs the Big East more than the Big East needs them. I disagree with that assessment. What seed were the Zags this year?
Everyone wants the best conference that can be. I just don't see how the Big East is its absolute best when it can add top talent and chooses not to out of deference for an ideal that has already been broken. Gonzaga really should have been team #8 all along. The Big East would be looking at back to back Champions if they were.
Their addition makes the TV contract more valuable. How many teams currently in the Big East do? I just don't understand how geography can be so costly in an already far flung conference.
EMT wrote:http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2017/03/elite-eight-ratings-tbs-gonzaga-xavier-lowest-years/
JohnW22 wrote:Time to pull out the good ole United States map and show that Gonzaga is a little farther away than Creighton.
CrawfishBucket wrote:
This talk about geography ruling out Gonzaga puzzles me.
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