(04-12-2017 07:12 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(04-09-2017 12:56 PM)ken d Wrote:  ... The perception of power in basketball is similar. Conferences don't get multiple tournament bids because they are considered power conferences. Just the opposite.

They are considered by the media to be power conferences because they consistently get multiple bids. Similarly, conferences don't get paid more by the media because someone dubbed them "power worthy". They get paid more because the market says their content is more valuable to the advertisers and consumers who pay the bills.

So what should we be calling the P5/6? A name they used to refer to themselves says it as eloquently and accurately as any I've heard. They are the "high resources group". And by that measure, I'm not sure that the Big East even qualifies. As far as I know, they have no special voting status within the NCAA. They don't have "autonomy", however that term is defined. Like the AAC, their current perceived market value as measured by the size of their media contracts was based on a prospective, rather than retrospective estimate of how strong they are likely to be on the court. ...

Note that the Big East's current perceived market value is not measured only by their current contract ... it's also measured the the other metric for basketball status already mentioned, their number of bids .. an average of 60% of their conference per season over the past three years.

Regarding "high resource", the Big East is high resource relative to their needs ... as the costs of FBS football massively outweigh the costs of any other NCAA sport. They get no special voting rights on decisions on FBS football ... but that is just another way of saying they are the only Basketball Major that is not an FBS football conference.

That's a really long excuse.

The Big East does not have a media contract paying 30 million per team. They are much more close to the AAC than they are to the lowest P5 conference.

The AAC is making like 2 mil per team and the Big East is making like 5 mil per team.

Even if the Big East were making 1 mil per team they would still be a strong basketball conference. It's silly to try and label based on $$$.