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RE: Whither the A10 and Big East?
(02-27-2018 01:46 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote: (02-27-2018 12:56 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: (02-27-2018 12:51 PM)stever20 Wrote: ACC 7 of the 13 others got at least 1 top 100. And one of the ones that didn't is probably #1 overall seed(Virginia)
SEC of the 18 total only 3 went to Kentucky.
P12 of the 15 total only 1 went to Arizona.
And you could say the same about the Big East. Of the Big East 6, 3 went to Villanova. Including the only 5 star guy that the league has gotten in the last 2 cycles.
And yet they are a top 3 conference. Whats that tell you?
The BE got good bounce from the football/C7 divorce (annulment). It benefited from being able to keep MSG and buying the rights to the conference name. Short term, refocusing on basketball and bringing in Butler, Creighton and Xavier were great moves that brought an immediate buzz. Long term may be a different story. In the old BE, the Catholics were slowly loosing ground to the football schools on competitiveness and revenue. The split reversed the trends, but only time will tell if that was temporary or permanent.
The A-10 never got that bounce. It's expansion moves turned out to be subtraction by addition as other than VCU, the new members couldn't replace the pop that was lost. Further the conference has become a far flung, bloated mishmash of private vs public, urban vs rural that that doesn't seem to have any true identity.
I too think they made a mistake adding the 5 Western members. I respect the heck out of Marquette. Creighton too. But growing up I didn’t Differentiate those 5 Big East Western schools from a Northern Iowa or a SW Missouri St. Solid little programs, but a low ceiling. Gonzaga will eventually go to playing in front of 1500 fans instead of 5,800 at some point. And so will Butler. Not sustainable in my opinion. We shall see.
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