Interesting Conference Proposal

[goodgreatgrand]

FIVE "Power" Conferences:

(These four have 16 teams)
B10
SEC
B12
PAC10

A new "Big Atlantic Conference" would have 16 football schools PLUS Nova, ND, SJU and GTown as basketball-only.

Where do we end up...along with the rest of the bball-only schools? The A-10.

http://media.nj.com/ledgerarchives/other/colorBIG10.DT.pdf

[KipsBayEagle]

This makes me want to cry

[Mr. Nielsen]

Don't worry, it's not going to happen. First, the Pac-10 is not going to 16 schools and one of the them would not be Boise St. The ACC with 20 schools for basketball, no way.

[KipsBayEagle]

If we were put as a basketball only school in the big ten, this proposal would go from devastating to awesome

[GGGG]

These idiots who come up with these silly schemes have no idea what is really driving expansion.

[goodgreatgrand]

Don't worry, it's not going to happen. First, the Pac-10 is not going to 16 schools and one of the them would not be Boise St. The ACC with 20 schools for basketball, no way.

These power conferences are not going to be aligned in the next year. What so many people are writing about is how the conference landscape "may" look like after a couple of rounds of shuffling. And if expansion continually adds value to a conference and its members, they will continue to do it....until they get to 16....or wherever the law of diminishing returns shows up. PAc-10 commish said he wants to "expand in pairs." So, if they are at 10 now, we're talking about 3 rounds max.

[GOMU85]

I can understand Marquette being placed in the A-10 only because their women's basketball sucks

[avid1010]

These idiots who come up with these silly schemes have no idea what is really driving expansion.

Even an idiot understands that money is driving everything!

[The Lens]

Assuming we're going to end up with Nova & Georgetown is pie in the sky thinking. 

[OneMadWarrior]

I would think in Some ways Marquette Would be more likely partner then St John's. Marquette spends more money on its program, which I believe woudl be mor eimportant in the eyes of some Athletic Director's. MU invests way too much in basketball to be forgotten and most other AD's would understand that.

[🏀]

I would think in Some ways Marquette Would be more likely partner then St John's. Marquette spends more money on its program, which I believe woudl be mor eimportant in the eyes of some Athletic Director's. MU invests way too much in basketball to be forgotten and most other AD's would understand that.

Except St. John's just assembled a super-coaching staff.

[KipsBayEagle]

St. Johns has too much history to be excluded, plus it gives an opening to msg, where everyone wants to have their conference tournament.

[GGGG]

St. Johns has too much history to be excluded, plus it gives an opening to msg, where everyone wants to have their conference tournament.

Are you kidding?  St. John's may have a history....a long time ago, but they haven't been relevant on the college basketball landscape for 20+ years.  And a conference can have its tournament at MSG regardless of whether St. John's is involved or not.

[KipsBayEagle]

Are you kidding?  St. John's may have a history....a long time ago, but they haven't been relevant on the college basketball landscape for 20+ years.  And a conference can have its tournament at MSG regardless of whether St. John's is involved or not.

Try bringing that argument to the tri state area or the east coast.  people here would rather have st. johns than marquette, and it wouldn't be close.

[GGGG]

Try bringing that argument to the tri state area or the east coast.  people here would rather have st. johns than marquette, and it wouldn't be close.

Of course.  No doubt about that...but that's not what I was disputing.  The major conferences would rather have neither.  (And I'm not including the BE as a major conference in this reference.)

[KipsBayEagle]

Of course.  No doubt about that...but that's not what I was disputing.  The major conferences would rather have neither.  (And I'm not including the BE as a major conference in this reference.)

I agree with you on that point.  I think marquette has a better shot at joining the big ten as a bball only rather than the acc

[GGGG]

I agree with you on that point.  I think marquette has a better shot at joining the big ten as a bball only rather than the acc

They don't have a shot at either.

[KipsBayEagle]

They don't have a shot at either.

Your probally right, but thinking we do gets me through the day.

[Zombie45]

Hell, If we are shifting everything, why not make the conference all private.

MU, Butler, Dayton, Depaul, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, St, Johns, St. Louis, Villanova, Xavier, and Notre Dame (if they want to stay independent in football)/Creighton/George Washington/St. Joes

[State Street Warrior]

I am really bumbed that the USC series isn't starting this year, (I believe someone said that in a different thread) hopefully we get that and the LSU series set for next year.  I think scheduling like this will be key if we want to remain on a high level.  That hopefully would be the start of a Gonzaga type of schedule(anyone, anywhere, anytime) that would continue if post conference realignment.  If we can get into or stay in a conference with a few other big names and have an extremely tough nonconference schedule we can continue to have success and get games on national TV I believe.  (see: Memphis, Gonzaga)