Butler, Xavier to Join Catholic 7

[Aughnanure]

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David Woods, covers Butler basketball and Olympic sports for the Indianapolis Star. ‏
https://twitter.com/DavidWoods007/status/279408858076696578

@DavidWoods007 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporting Xavier & Butler will leave A-10, join Big East's Catholic 7 in unnamed league.

Now the Story...

Marquette entering a whole new league
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/bigeast14-d7815om-183439151.html

Marquette's new basketball-centric athletic conference will include 10 or 12 teams, have a reasonable television contract and rotating sites for its league tournament, according to university sources.

The Golden Eagles will join six other former members of the Big East: Georgetown, St. John's, Providence, DePaul, Seton Hall and Villanova. Butler and Xavier will leave the Atlantic 10 to join the new unnamed league.

Creighton, Virginia Commonwealth, Dayton or St. Louis could become the 10th team, or the conference could begin play with 12 teams if three schools vying for the 10th spot are all worthy candidates.

[MUCrew]

Nice

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

And so it begins.

[LloydMooresLegs]

Boom goes the dynamite.  Boom goes the dynamite.  Now 3 more times. 

[MuMark]

Interesting that Hunt is the one breaking that news.......he better be right or will look like a fool.

[MUUWUWM]

Interesting that Hunt is the one breaking that news.......he better be right or will look like a fool.

You can say that again.

[MUUWUWM]

But he does reference MU sources doesn't he?

[Warriors10]

David Woods ‏@DavidWoods007

A college basketball insider cautions that Xavier/#Butler to new league with Catholic 7 not done. So stay tuned.

[cheebs09]

Someone might want to tell anyone that uses Hunt as a source that he thought the Big Ten was a legitimate option for MU.

Xavier is the obvious one, so I'm sure at some point he will be right on that. Butler seems likely, but Xavier seems to be the one lock we always hear.

[chapman]

Yeah, let me see a better source.  If it's true this conference is perfectly on track.

[AZWarrior]

And so it begins.

Were you a B-5 fan?   

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Were you a B-5 fan?   

I honestly have no clue what you mean by that. Im very excited about this new conference.

[GGGG]

Where's UDPride????  In a corner somewhere???

[mubb34]

I am super pumped right now! This is going to be solid!!!! More road trips for me now!

[boyonthedock]

wtf is udpride lol

[Pakuni]

Where's UDPride????  In a corner somewhere???

Seriously, go read the UDPride message board. Some wise people over there who see the writing on the wall and are crossing their fingers and hoping for an invite to the party.
And then there are the guys who somehow think the A-10 is in a position to make the C7 schools come groveling to them.

[MarquetteDano]

Seriously, go read the UDPride message board. Some wise people over there who see the writing on the wall and are crossing their fingers and hoping for an invite to the party.
And then there are the guys who somehow think the A-10 is in a position to make the C7 schools come groveling to them.

Yeah, some real venom towards Marquette and LW in those posts.  Yowza.  I think if they join the league they will be hatin' on us.

[Benny B]

Yeah, some real venom towards Marquette and LW in those posts.  Yowza.  I think if they join the league they will be hatin' on us.

In other news, UDPride is Ners.

[chapman]

wtf is udpride lol

A few months back, someone whose user name here (as well as the name of a Dayton fan forum), posted a hilariously delusional, pompous, and at least an attempt to be condescending, which was obscenely long but basically amounted to the A-10 schools are all loyal to and love each other, there is no price tag for their stability, and none of them would ever leave the conference nor would they bother to invite MU or any other BE school to join since everything they have going is perfect.  It's comedic gold because it was written seriously.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Yeah, some real venom towards Marquette and LW in those posts.  Yowza.  I think if they join the league they will be hatin' on us.

If they join our league I would have no problem with running them out of the Bradley Center every year maybe even chanting "UD pride" as they time winds down.  

[MU82]

Interesting that Hunt is the one breaking that news.......he better be right or will look like a fool.

Hunt isn't the source. He uses sources. If his sources are telling the truth, he will have the story right. That's how journalism works.

[Benny B]

Hunt isn't the source. He uses sources. If his sources are telling the truth, he will have the story right. That's how journalism works.

Hunt doesn't have the story right.  If he did, Zagoria would be all over this.

Heck, even Andy Katz attributed the rumor to the MJS.  Usually he just reports other people's work as his own... evidently he didn't want credit for this one.

[martyconlonontherun]

Hunt isn't the source. He uses sources. If his sources are telling the truth, he will have the story right. That's how journalism works.

What the post is saying is that he doesn't believe Hunt has the knowledge and capability to communicate it properly.

You see this all the time when reporters get information about contracts with players. They get something for a source but screw up the details. May say buy-out clause instead of opt-out, etc.

It wouldn't be shocked if Hunt misinterpreted what the source said about the what will happen and what is the plan.

[chapman]

Yeah, some real venom towards Marquette and LW in those posts.  Yowza.  I think if they join the league they will be hatin' on us.

Now I kind of want them in...we lose Louisville, Pitt, ND, WVU, UConn...who's going to be in our conference that is just plain fun to beat?  So much mutual respect and happy camping that we need some form of couch-burners for Buzz to dance in center court to their anthem.

[Warriors10]

Maybe Dayton should start an email campaign.