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(03-12-2021 12:56 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 12:43 PM)odu09 Wrote:  

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(03-12-2021 11:50 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-12-2021 11:35 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  No, we don't quite have the same problems as everyone else and we are not on equal footing. We are outliers. The travel isn't nearly as bad for most of the others. If we moved to the A10 and were still "middling" then there would be a stronger case that JJ is the main problem. I'm no fan fan of JJ, but I don't think replacing him is going to fix anything, unless we roll the dice and replace him with someone who cheats. We need out of this conference for a lot of reasons that have been discussed at length and even the admin and Baghdad Bob agree. This is just one of those reasons.

But why would the A10 be willing to take a middling team from a one-bid league? This is like a chicken and egg situation. I think we need to show possible future conference leadership our commitment to basketball excellence, and keeping JJ does not show that.

Why? Because our presence would reduce costs for most of the conference, create more demand for regional TV games, and significantly increase attendance at the conference tournament (the big money maker) most years. We offer the conference more than anyone else they could get even as a middling team.

1. Reduced travel costs is probably minimal when they are already regionalized.
2. How has our impact gone in terms of market presence? So far if you look at cusa media deals, we've made 0 impact to that.
3. Increased attendance at a tournament... a once a year event ticket sales? Huh.

Not to mention A10 would be losing shares of their basketball tournament payouts by adding another team. And it's not like we are a good investment in those terms... how many NCAA tournament credits have we earned in the lifetime of the program?

FWIW my dream is A10 bball and whatever happens to football happens (prefer FBS indy with scheduling alliance). But I don't think we are exactly a slam dunk add.

1. Reduced travel costs is probably minimal when they are already regionalized.

The A10 is not regionalized. And if it were to become regionalized by adding us, that would only work in our favor because the outlier schools would have less reason to object.

2. How has our impact gone in terms of market presence? So far if you look at cusa media deals, we've made 0 impact to that.

CUSA has 0 teams in the same region as us (Washington DC) so you are correct that there is no value as there is 0 chance that any game is going to go on regional TV (much less national) with only one team in the region, unless that team is Maryland or maybe Georgetown. The A10 has 4 teams in the region. Assuming we'd play each of those schools twice that is 8 potential additional regional TV games. Even if only 2 get picked up, that's significant value.

3. Increased attendance at a tournament... a once a year event ticket sales? Huh.

Yes, the tournament is THE money maker for mid major conferences.

Not to mention A10 would be losing shares of their basketball tournament payouts by adding another team. And it's not like we are a good investment in those terms... how many NCAA tournament credits have we earned in the lifetime of the program?

Would not be a significant impact. A10 credits are not distributed evenly like they are here and were in CUSA. The team that earned the credits receive the vast majority of the money (I believe it is 75%).

Fair enough. I'd love to be proven wrong and see the A10 take us as we are, I just don't see it happening for them if we aren't serious about our commitment to basketball. I think people tend to over value their own teams.