Why aren't we talking about Holy Cross?

[Avenue Commons]

Just occurred to me that no one is discussing Holy Cross as an option. Gives the league Boston and with Bill Simmons/ESPNs help could be a player.

Here's the Simmons article from a few years ago:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070328&sportCat=ncb

[Dawson Rental]

Just occurred to me that no one is discussing Holy Cross as an option. Gives the league Boston and with Bill Simmons/ESPNs help could be a player.

Holy Cross doesn't want to be big time that's why they went to the Patroit League.

[chapman]

Holy Cross doesn't want to be big time that's why they went to the Patroit League.

Yep.  All about basketball commitment.  If they want to join, show us that then point out your geography and we can take a look in 2016.

[brewcity77]

You forgot the teal.

[hutchfor3]

Because they are terrible and don't care about basketball.

[warriorchick]

Because they are terrible and don't care about basketball.

And they stole our fight song.

[MUMountin]

Too small (less than 3000 students), and Worcester is not Boston.

[4everwarriors]

Man, if the idea is to just find 10-12 basketball schools, that's not too hard. If you wanna try to be elite, with all the fixin's that come with it, well, then I'm glad LW is leadin' this crusade and not fellow bonehead Scoopers.

[Dawson Rental]

And they stole our fight song.

The way my Dad told it, Notre Dame stole Holy Cross' fight song.

[Pakuni]

Well, for starters, there's the issue with them being Holy Cross.

[GGGG]

What about Stetson?  How come nobody brings up that vital link to the Florida market?

[Dawson Rental]

What about Stetson?  How come nobody brings up that vital link to the Florida market?

LOL.  Would Stetson agree to renaming itself Southeast Cupcake University?

[warriorchick]

The way my Dad told it, Notre Dame stole Holy Cross' fight song.

Nope, it's ours.  Listen for yourself -- different arrangement, but same song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Lz6-elbsY

[Aughnanure]

Would've been nice if Holy Cross had stayed committed to basketball or joined the Big East when it began w/ Providence. They actually run a pretty solid athletic dept with 25 varsity sports though.

Same goes for BU. Would be nice to have a school in that market, would solidify the East Coast contingent. But it's not meant to be.

[slack00]

There are plenty of rea$ons why Holy Cross i$n't included with the re$t of the $chools that are being con$idered.

[frozena pizza]

Diener's performance against Holy Cross in the 2003 first round game is still one of my all-time favorites.  That's about all I can say for Holy Cross.  That and Chris Matthews went there in case that makes a difference.

By the way, some people need to put a little more thought into what "brings you a market".  Just because you get a school from a certain metropolitan area into your conference, that does not mean that everyone in that city suddenly becomes a fan of your conference.

[bilsu]

Diener's performance against Holy Cross in the 2003 first round game is still one of my all-time favorites.  That's about all I can say for Holy Cross.  That and Chris Matthews went there in case that makes a difference.

By the way, some people need to put a little more thought into what "brings you a market".  Just because you get a school from a certain metropolitan area into your conference, that does not mean that everyone in that city suddenly becomes a fan of your conference.

We came very close to losing that game. I wonder where we would be today, if we had lost that game?

[ChicosBailBonds]

Holy Cross doesn't want to be big time that's why they went to the Patroit League.

Patriot League is changing to full scholarships next year I believe.

[MerrittsMustache]

We came very close to losing that game. I wonder where we would be today, if we had lost that game?

We'd be SLU.

[icheights]

By the way, some people need to put a little more thought into what "brings you a market".  Just because you get a school from a certain metropolitan area into your conference, that does not mean that everyone in that city suddenly becomes a fan of your conference.

By bring you a market it means television sets with access to your conference's games...not necessarily fans of a conference, so yes having a team in a market does bring you that market.

[Benny B]

We came very close to losing that game. I wonder where we would be today, if we had lost that game?

We'd be a bunch of whiners trumpeting how solid and close-knit our middling conference is while secretly hoping that the new Big East lobs us an invite.

In other words, we'd be UDPride.

[🏀]

Well done, Sultan. Well done.

[The Equalizer]

Because they are terrible and don't care about basketball.

No different than DePaul.

[Pakuni]

No different than DePaul.

DePaul spent $6.5 million on its basketball program in 2010, seventh most in the Big East. More than Pitt, Villanova, Cincinnati, St. John's and West Virginia, and not far behind UConn. They're paying their coach $1.8 million a year.
They care. They've just made a lot of bad decisions to put them where they are today.

[JD]

Why don't we try for the University of Phoenix, or Rassmussen College?

They have a lot of commercials, and probably can add to our conference...

Teal isn't necessary i hope.