(10-25-2016 03:17 PM)bullet Wrote: (10-25-2016 12:12 PM)_C2_ Wrote: That's when it should have happened.
The travel and expenses are exaggerated. Only a few sports do home and homes and the Zags would travel east of Lake Michigan rarely, especially if Dayton isn't the hypothetical 12th.
Why? They are doing fine where they are at.
The Big East is doing fine without them.
Looks like I didn't add my numbers right. How is this for a Big East olympic sports conference:
Add UConn in the East to make 10.
Put Creighton, Gonzaga, BYU, St Mary, Wichita St., UNLV, SDSU, and 3 more west/midwest programs to make 10 in the west.
20 team superconference for Olympic sports only. Divisional play would limit crossover travel expenses. You would basically destroy the olympic sports power of the remaining conferences, locking in the Big East as a rival to the P5 conferences. You would lock up a bunch of TV rights, and probably be able to have a conference network (if those are still valuable). You would still have the Eastern rivals and TV markets, while adding the best remaining properties in the west.
While I think something like this could work on paper, no way you could get all those schools to cooperate, even if they were making more money. The only reason I would even bring up such a thing is that previously the Big East (all sports version) made a play for SDSU, Boise, and BYU. Though it fell through for football, an olympic sports conference may stand a chance - though a 1 in a million one.