I think they are more interested in teh $$$$$$'s than on the court results. $$$$$=success to anyone/anything that matters.
Creighton to Big East?
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I think they are more interested in teh $$$$$$'s than on the court results. $$$$$=success to anyone/anything that matters.
This is such a stupid criticism of the Big East move and I keep seeing it. They are also getting games vs. Georgetown, Marquette, Butler, and Xavier. You're telling me that top end isn't more exciting than Wichita St. and UNI? The DePaul's and Providence's are taking the place of your Evansville's and Drake's and on that front, I'd say they are also an improvement over the MVC.
Criticize this for the reasons that are actually valid: Illogical geography/travel and the fact that they'll struggle to keep competitive, killing interest in their program.
CUJay. There are two things that you need to get your head around 1) CU's strength as a basketball program is directly proportional to the strength of the MVC which is to say that it is unremarkable compared to the Catholic 7 2) Tank will hear about that program less and less if it leaves the MVC while he lives in Omaha.
Yeah, they will make a decent amount of money, but they will end up around the level that Providence is at right now at best.
You know, it's always possible that he actually learned his lessons at Iowa State. I don't think his problem here was that he didn't see what he had done wrong, but that by the time he had gotten to that point the culture and team had gotten so far away from him he was never going to be able to reel it back in. He'll have had three years to establish his program at Creighton, it's possible he will be able to leverage the Big East thing into recruiting better players and actually understand how to work with them this time around. Not a sure thing by any means, but possible.
I was also thinking last night, if I wasn't so sure that they were just biding their time for the new Big East to invite more teams in the next couple seasons, shouldn't the Valley at least make a run at inviting St. Louis to join? They'd probably say no, but doesn't it at least make some sense? Outside of VCU, what's left in the A-10 you'd really consider a marquee program worth putting up with the horrible travel situation to be in a conference with? Even without Creighton you'd still have pretty decent mid-majors like Wichita St. and UNI in your conference. You'd have home court for your conference tournament. You're not constantly having your teams travelling to the east coast. And if the Valley decided they wanted to bring in say Belmont and Oral Roberts at the same time and go to 12, isn't that a conference you'd consider pretty level with a Butler/Temple/Xavier/Charlotee-less A-10 anyway? Obviously all bets are off if they think they're Big East bound in the near future, but it's at least food for thought, right?
SLU is the best option for the Valley if they are interested. They pretty much replace everthing Creighton brought to the table. They are even more isolated from the A10 geographically with Xavier leaving, so maybe they would be interested now. Dayton is still pretty close, but if I'm the Valley I invite them too.
Invite Nebraska-Omaha, South Dakota and South Dakota State to the MVC.
Again, replace one Omaha school for another and then fill the remaining two with schools that fit geographically.
Again, replace one Omaha school for another and then fill the remaining two with schools that fit geographically.
