(03-18-2013 03:25 PM)LostInSpace Wrote:  There is a rumor floating around the A10 that SLU's and Dayton's presidents were told at Friday's A10 meeting that they are welcome to remain in the A10 for next year, but that their teams will be prohibited from participating for A10 championships.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the A10 did issue an ultimatum. I'm sure they don't want two teams in the conference for a lame duck year after having four lame duck teams this year and they no doubt want the additional exit fee money and reduced travel expenses they would get by having SLU and Dayton leave at the end of June.

I think that rumor is a bunch of crap. The A-10 can't bar SLU or UD from A-10 tournaments because they're leaving if they have not notified the conference they are leaving.

Temple and Charlotte had "lame duck" seasons (Which helped the conference a lot, BTW). Xavier and Butler did not. They are STILL members of the A-10 conference. There's been no invite from the Big East yet. There's been media reports saying they are going to leave, and they will leave. But it's future tense.

You're a member until you withdraw. The A-10 has no grounds for barring UD and SLU from the conference tournaments due to invitations from other conferences that HAVE NOT COME YET, and might not EVER come.

(03-19-2013 08:50 AM)stever20 Wrote:  Also play in games doesn't alter the general structure of the tournament. What you are saying fundamentally alters big time the structure of the tournament.

It's like why I laugh so hard at these smaller conferences that gerrymander their tourney to help the #1 seeds, and they still fall flat on their face.

I'd disagree on both counts. The First Four games are stupid. I find it hilarious that protecting the top seed of a 30-game regular season in an effort to give the majority of the league a reason to keep playing all season long while still maintaining some kind of fairness to the best regular season team is "Gerrymandering" in your opinion.

What do you call passing a rule that committees which select the NCAA fields have to have 50% membership from the BCS conferences; and adding in Opening Round and First Four games to the bracket so the number of at-larges available to the BCS conferences doesn't go down (knowing that at-large bids equals shares of the TV revenue) ??

It's gerrymandering by the BCS schools to keep more money.

(03-19-2013 01:10 PM)NJRedMan Wrote:  

(03-19-2013 01:04 PM)Title Wrote:  SLU is an above average college basketball program.

That isn't an insult. SLU has won fewer NCAA games than I have fingers on my right hand.

Settle down. There's nothing wrong being this year's Davidson/Kent State/whomever.

Or this years Butler.

Or last year's Butler. Or next year's Butler.

I wonder if Gordon Hayward, Matt Howard or Shelvin Mack have younger brothers? Cousins? Anything?!!