Athletic Fantasy Article...boo or yeah

[mu_eyeballs]

Interested in seeing the reaction of getting booted from the Big East...but the landing spot isn't too bad I guess?

Butler,
Creighton,
Dayton,
DePaul,
Loyola Chicago,
Marquette,
Memphis,
Nebraska ,
Notre Dame ,
Northwestern ,
Saint Louis

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6521319/2025/08/01/college-basketball-conference-realignment/

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Absolutely NOT.

[JakeBarnes]

The worst

ND sucks.

[MU82]

We already were in the Great Midwest. Not going back.

[WhiteTrash]

This will cost us a seed line or two. 

[tower912]

I am completely in favor, as it would make scoop interesting.

[Skatastrophy]

I already stopped watching Marquette basketball. But this would make me watch it less.

[Shaka Shart]

I didn't read the article, is st Thomas replacing us

[NCMUFan]

Yuck.

[muwarrior69]

I didn't read the article, is st Thomas replacing us

I could not read the article as it is behind a pay wall.

[MuMark]

My subscription is running out soon.......after reading this I feel better and better about my decision to let it expire.

[brewcity77]

My subscription is running out soon.......after reading this I feel better and better about my decision to let it expire.

I cancelled the other day and they offered me a year for $10. More than happy to pay that.

And while I hate that realignment, I get it from the author. Jim Root wants to see more sensible leagues rather than super leagues like the SEC, B10, & B12 have become. Any mass realignment that does that is going to leave a number of the 79 current high majors outside the new power structure.

Looking at it, there are a few tweaks that could make it more palatable. Replace LUC & SLU with Cincy and Xavier, I'm suddenly a lot more interested. Shades of the old C-USA when it didn't suck.

[WhiteTrash]

My subscription is running out soon.......after reading this I feel better and better about my decision to let it expire.

Sorta had the feel of "I need a click bait story in 5 minuets Chat GPT, what do you got?".

[Shaka Shart]

Athletic is decent for local sports coverage but it's more volume that quality these days

[mileskishnish72]

The guy had to spend a fair amount of time on it, but...yecch.

[dgies9156]

BS idea.

We are a Power 5 team.

Period.

[Farley36]

Even the Athletic realizes the return of Mike Deane level success is close at hand.

[MU82]

I like the OP's headline, which aims to help us all remember Stuart Scott.

[Billy Hoyle]

few things get me as outraged as an article about things that will never happen and is only written for clicks.

[wadesworld]

few things get me as outraged as an article about things that will never happen and is only written for clicks.

The irony of this post after complaining about a Marquette football tshirt having an unoriginal phrase on it...

[GB Warrior]

This article single-handedly made me lose faith in journalism as a profession

[Nukem2]

few things get me as outraged as an article about things that will never happen and is only written for clicks.

few things get me as outraged as an article about things that will never happen and is only written for clicks.

Yeah, it's a goofy article.

[WhiteTrash]

This article single-handedly made me lose faith in journalism as a profession

The New York Times has that effect on people. 

[brewcity77]

You guys are letting your pro-Marquette mentality blind you from the point of the article. It's about trimming the fat from bloated power conferences. The point is more about 16-18 team leagues abutting both coasts. Condensing them with geographic sense, natural rivalries, and round robin potential across the board.

A Big 10 that has 10 relatively close state schools makes more sense than what we have now. An SEC with teams in the Southeast, an ACC generally along the Atlantic Coast, and yes, a Big East with schools in the northeast. From natural historic rivals and regional proximity, Syracuse & Pitt make more sense there than we do.

Just because the article mentions Marquette doesn't mean it's about Marquette. It's about a realignment that makes sense broadly to college basketball fans.

And frankly, replace Loyola & SLU with Xavier & Cincy and that league would be a hell of a lot of fun, and like the old CUSA & Metro, able to compete on a national level with anyone.

[Nukem2]

You guys are letting your pro-Marquette mentality blind you from the point of the article. It's about trimming the fat from bloated power conferences. The point is more about 16-18 team leagues abutting both coasts. Condensing them with geographic sense, natural rivalries, and round robin potential across the board.

A Big 10 that has 10 relatively close state schools makes more sense than what we have now. An SEC with teams in the Southeast, an ACC generally along the Atlantic Coast, and yes, a Big East with schools in the northeast. From natural historic rivals and regional proximity, Syracuse & Pitt make more sense there than we do.

Just because the article mentions Marquette doesn't mean it's about Marquette. It's about a realignment that makes sense broadly to college basketball fans.

And frankly, replace Loyola & SLU with Xavier & Cincy and that league would be a hell of a lot of fun, and like the old CUSA & Metro, able to compete on a national level with anyone.

Yah, but it's just summer pablum. Would never happen now....$$$$. Why bother?