Latest: Big East, Big 12 prepared to talk merger

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

We need to be in a basketball/football hybrid conference.  It's the only way of insuring some sort of relevancy.  Gary Parrish at CBS has it right.  Plus despite 2003 nightmares playing Kansas in a conference game is interesting.

[muwarrior69]

If this merger does come to fruition the new league should seriously consider rotating the conference basketball championship. I live in New Jersey and seeing MU play at the Garden is great, but those B12 teams certainly are not going to send large contingencies of students and alums to the Garden every year. Perhaps alternating between Kansas City and the Garden would be ideal. I think it would create more cohesiveness in the league. I know, the Kansas home court advantage is different than the SJU home court advantage, but living here in the east and as successful as MU has been I always felt that even though we were in the league we were always the far midwest interloper. You go on the other boards: GT, Nova, PC we are hardly in the discussion. The league understandably has always been eastern myopic. If the schools from both conference are to remain relevent we must acknowledge the new geographical reality