(10-06-2017 07:52 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  Do you know how much different the landscape will be by 2027? If the BE waits until then, they might not even be a viable conference anymore. D-Day is coming for all the money-grubbing P conferences and it will happen way before 2027.

Greed is good, greed works, it clarifies...... until the bubble bursts. When that ultimately happens, Greed [unfortunately] will be the reason.

You're not fully understanding the point of college athletics, from the POV of the administration. The reason the Big EAst went to the Catholic-private-school model, when the big-time-hybrid failed, was to plan for the 50-year and 100-year range. The Big East Conference is now a "Catholic Ivy" club, and will still be a "Catholic Ivy" club that gives St. John's, for example, a scoreboard-item over local competitors Iona, Fordham etc.

That's designed to be something that still matters even if Big East athletics or college basketball as a whole has a serious decline in popularity. Much like the actual Ivies de-emphasized athletics, the Big East schools are laying the groundwork to do the same if we have to.