Big East/PAC 4 Merger?
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Every idiot has an opinion.
Meh, Frank the Tank has a bit of a following and he has a tendency to be biased against the east coast so surprising to get a little bit of love from him. But, yeah, he's just a guy with an opinion.
For what it's worth, I like this a lot better than adding Gonzaga, because at least we would get travel partners where we could hit more than one school on a West Coast road trip. Plus, from Connecticut's perspective, it fills out our football schedule with decent, but potentially beatable, opponents. I recognize that that doesn't matter to anyone else in the BE conference.
Really wouldn’t want this to happen…. Playing with this idea… If something like this were to happen here’s what I’d be okay with…
Add Stanford, SMU and Gonzaga getting to 14 teams.
East and west divisions. Home and home within the division and yearly alternating home games outside the division. Would put us at 19 conference games. The east would be an absolute gauntlet. But expansion into Seattle, SF and Dallas Market place should help with viewers and $
East:
SHU, PC, GT, NOVA, SJU, Xavier, UConn
West:
Butler, Marquette, Creighton, DePaul, Gonzaga, SMU, Stanford
Add Stanford, SMU and Gonzaga getting to 14 teams.
East and west divisions. Home and home within the division and yearly alternating home games outside the division. Would put us at 19 conference games. The east would be an absolute gauntlet. But expansion into Seattle, SF and Dallas Market place should help with viewers and $
East:
SHU, PC, GT, NOVA, SJU, Xavier, UConn
West:
Butler, Marquette, Creighton, DePaul, Gonzaga, SMU, Stanford
I am always rooting for the downfall of the ACC, and I think the best way to get there would be if the ACC took The PAC4. Owning my own business has taught me that when you do things that cause an increased work load (cross country flights) , adds very little return on investment and simply doesnt make sense, the result will be failure.
UConn would have fit best in the ACC, but didn’t get picked 10 years ago for 2 reasons, bad timing and Jim Calhoun.
UConn would have fit best in the ACC, but didn’t get picked 10 years ago for 2 reasons, bad timing and Jim Calhoun.
Just because you have a following doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot. This is a terrible idea and opinion.
This doesn’t fix their football problem and only saddles the Big East with more mouths to feed. Just say NO!
Mostly because Boston College "wanted to be the New England school" and thus blackballed us. This was written about in a Boston Globe article in which Gene DeFilippo actually said the quoted text above.
Supposedly, Father Leahy and Donna Shalala carried long-term resentment about the lawsuit naming them individually. Keep in mind though that Pittsburgh was also a Plaintiff in that lawsuit and they are in the ACC.
It always comes down to the details. If this results in the new new Big East getting a dramatically better broadcast rights deal, then I have less of an issue with it. Particularly since it would likely work out to an east division and a west division, so that Connecticut and Seton hall would play home in a ways against original big east teams.
For what it's worth, FTT is an attorney who has been writing about conference realignment for years. He's still nobody, but he's a nobody with a history.
It’s not even a thing so how can there be details?
Attorney’s can be idiots too.
I can make an exception for UConn because they are a charter member but under no circumstances can we allow public schools into the conference.
40 years ago (i.e. pre facilities arms race) it didn’t matter as much, but in today’s landscape it’s incredibly unfair for state schools to compete with small private schools in the same league.
40 years ago (i.e. pre facilities arms race) it didn’t matter as much, but in today’s landscape it’s incredibly unfair for state schools to compete with small private schools in the same league.
Put UConn in the West so they can be with their football buddies and put Butler in the East.
As it is, the whole concept is a stupid idea (not yours necessarily, you're just riffing off an existing potential scenario).
The reason for the remaining Pac-4 to merge with either the AAC or MWC IS football. Adding them to the BE simply puts them on the island of Independent football irrelevancy.
Putting them in the AAC or MWC will have them on an island of irrelevancy. They’re basically screwed at this point.
They would still have national cable sports network contracts.
Indeed a Bay Area connection would probably enhance those media rights deals.
The MWC should have made that deal yesterday as it would also preserve its relationship with San Diego State.
That's kind of the point. It's impossible to evaluate either pro or con until they were details.
Anyway 16 posts is probably as much discussion is this is worth.
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