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Portal rankings (Evan Miya)

CL82

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See a trend here? Only three non-P4 teams and they are big east teams UConn, St. John's and Creighton. UConn in St. John's are unicorns right now, with access to more resources than the rest of the conference. I'm not sure about Creighton.

We talk about it often, but NIL plus unrestricted transfers has created de facto free agency that benefits "big market" teams. I don't know that it can be fixed at this point, but it is ruining a lot of what was great about college basketball.

I am absolutely grateful that Connecticut is managing the new era pretty well (shout out to Dave Benedict for seeing and understanding the new landscape and getting out in front of it early), but make no mistake about it, what's going on is bad for basketball and seems tailor made to squeeze out smaller colleges from being able to compete. Note that many "football powers" seem committed to buying their way to basketball dominance.
 
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See a trend here? Only three non-P4 teams and they are big east teams UConn, St. John's and Creighton. UConn in St. John's are unicorns right now, with access to more resources than the rest of the conference. I'm not sure about Creighton.

We talk about it often, but NIL plus unrestricted transfers has created de facto free agency that benefits "big market" teams. I don't know that it can be fixed at this point, but it is ruining a lot of what was great about college basketball.

I am absolutely grateful that Connecticut is managing the new era pretty well (shout out to Dave Benedict for seeing and understanding the new landscape and getting out in front of it early), but make no mistake about it, what's going on is bad for basketball and seems tailor made to squeeze out smaller colleges from being able to compete. Note that many "football powers" seem committed to buying their way to basketball dominance.
Creighton absolutely has the resources to play in the space of those two, IMO, and I would venture that in some years Nova, Gtown and Marquette are right there too. Xavier has also been speculated about as strong at least when Miller was there, and their roster turnover and retention under him seems to indicate that. I’m not sure if that will change with Little Rick, but he must think they are better positioned than New Mexico.
 
Creighton might have the most sustainable resources of all of them. Selling out an 18k seat arena every night is a great way to bring in the revenue needed to keep funding success. They're not 1 lost mega-donor away from being in our boat.
 
Creighton might have the most sustainable resources of all of them. Selling out an 18k seat arena every night is a great way to bring in the revenue needed to keep funding success. They're not 1 lost mega-donor away from being in our boat.
Yes although I don’t know how the “gate” at these places translates to revenue. Like what UCONN pulls from a sold out XL Center or what SJU pulls from Dolan now that they are selling out MSG.
 
Yes although I don’t know how the “gate” at these places translates to revenue. Like what UCONN pulls from a sold out XL Center or what SJU pulls from Dolan now that they are selling out MSG.
UConn pays something like 40 or $45,000 +3% of the first 10,000 seats sold for the XL center per. It's not as big a cash cow as you would think. It always frustrates me that the state of Connecticut pays the university of Connecticut, which pays the athletic department to rent the XL center so that the Capital District Redevelopment association (CDRA), a state subsidized agency. Basically they are offloading some of the CDRA perpetual multimillion dollar losses onto the athletic departments balance sheet. If the State of Connecticut believes that UConn playing in Hartford is good for the state capitals economy, then they should eliminate the middleman and let us play there for free. The state would end up paying the CDRA's annual multimillion dollar loss in one lump sum rather than "laundering" it through UConn's athletic department in UConn's balance sheet would not be artificially lowered.

[/end rant that nobody else on this site cares about.]
 
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I read once years ago that SJU needed to get around 10K at MSG to start making money. Hence why in certain years they were selective about who they played at the arena. Obviously that has now changed with Pitino.
 
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I read once years ago that SJU needed to get around 10K at MSG to start making money. Hence why in certain years they were selective about who they played at the arena. Obviously that has now changed with Pitino.
UConn needs to be over 10k to m make money at the XL center.
 
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