Lolly Popp
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RE: VCU would nudge new conference ahead of ACC (w/Xavier & Butler)
(12-28-2012 01:45 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote: I just don't think that it will end up being a major factor if the farthest west that the league goes is Creighton. The current Big East (much less the new one that's going to include Texas schools as all-sports members) had a much larger footprint and they never bothered with divisions. Even more to the point, the Atlantic 10 has more teams now with essentially the same footprint that the new C7 league is looking at and doesn't have divisions and they're not as well funded. Now, if you're talking about adding truly western schools such as BYU and Gonzaga, then that's a different story.
The current Big East uses divisions in both men's and women's soccer. It doesn't have enough participants to use divisions in field hockey or lacrosse and volleyball is probably playing round robin due to Title IX issues. With no football, that won't be an issue for the C7, so they might change formats.
I also think the Creighton and VCU fans pimping their teams on this internet message board for some stupid reason, since nobody here has any actual power or influence, might end up being real disappointed if factors other than simply basketball lead to their schools not being invited into the league.
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12-29-2012 05:20 PM |
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LJay
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RE: VCU would nudge new conference ahead of ACC (w/Xavier & Butler)
What factors are you alluding to?
Outside of basketball, Creighton is Jesuit, has a fine academic reputation, has minor sports showing up in the NCAA's including two consecutive final fours in soccer, already spends on athletics, has boosters of substance who finance large projects and there were 18,450 fans at the game tonight.
What CU has against it is geography, a city of only 850,000 and less "national buzz" than a couple other candidates. I fully believe those may keep CU out so I suppose that may be what you are alluding to?
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2012 11:15 PM by LJay.)
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12-29-2012 10:42 PM |
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thegalen
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RE: VCU would nudge new conference ahead of ACC (w/Xavier & Butler)
(12-29-2012 05:20 PM)Lolly Popp Wrote: (12-28-2012 01:45 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote: I just don't think that it will end up being a major factor if the farthest west that the league goes is Creighton. The current Big East (much less the new one that's going to include Texas schools as all-sports members) had a much larger footprint and they never bothered with divisions. Even more to the point, the Atlantic 10 has more teams now with essentially the same footprint that the new C7 league is looking at and doesn't have divisions and they're not as well funded. Now, if you're talking about adding truly western schools such as BYU and Gonzaga, then that's a different story.
I also think the Creighton and VCU fans pimping their teams on this internet message board for some stupid reason, since nobody here has any actual power or influence...
Hi, you must be new here. Welcome to the internet and a thing called message boards.
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12-30-2012 01:34 PM |
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