You think Gonzaga fans want most of their games to be at 4:00 PM? As for the Bog East helping them, I think playing in a conference where they will regularly lose games for the first time ever will probably diminish their reputation.
New Math made me laugh.
Have you looked at the college landscape?
Why would anyone from the northeast want to play there? Because they're one of the best basketball programs in the country. Why would Gonzaga recruit the northeast? Because there's great basketball players in the northeast.
UConn just got a stud player from Seattle, they didn't have to fly across the country all the time and sit in Seattle gyms. Gonzaga hasn't needed to recruit northeast kids, I'm sure if they were in the Big East they would look at some northeast kids. They recruit nationally and internationally, they got the best players in the country from Minneapolis and Omaha. They've gotten kids from the basketball factories Montverde Academy in Florida and Huntington Prep in West Virginia.
This is just not even true, they've had multiple. Braden Huff (Illinois), Pavel Zakharov (Florida), Filip Petrusev (Florida), Zach Norvell Jr (Illinois), Josh Perkins (West Virginia)
Yes, and Gonzaga is barely a part of it.
That makes them more successful than most NEWBIE members!
What do you mean it is a cause for concern if Few leaves? There was this northeastern school They had one of the best coaches in the country and didn’t miss a beat when he left. Well for 2 years. Then they fell off a cliff.
Whether they are in the league or not doesn’t impact things one way or the others. Adding them wouldn’t be a big win and loosing them wouldn’t be a big loss. Epitome of irrelevant
How did Gonzaga’s football team do last year? There is your answer as to why the PAC ignored them. Here is the reality that you guys don’t get. For P5 leagues if you don’t have football you don’t matter. Why? The NEWBIE supposedly has the best paying basketball only contract. Even in the worst scenarios, a post Texas/Oklahoma B-12 earns 4-5 times what the NEWBIE does.
You clearly follow college sports, you should know geography doesn't matter. The Big East is a basketball conference, they can't add Ohio State or Bama to the conference. It looks like they can add another great basketball school though, one that resonates with people all across the country and is a big part of the college basketball landscape.
Geography doesn’t matter to TV Deals. Agree with that. Also doesn’t matter where you bring in so much money you can’t let it stand in the way. But I think it matters for a tiny school in Spokane, who’s fans won’t even be able to watch 2/3 of their road games. Maybe it happens. It’s not a good decision if it does. I don’t think Fox is going to pay up for Gonzaga in any way that increases the payout to the rest of the league. Best chance is maybe it’s not dilutive.
When you get $60M+ from a TV deal it tends to solve some logistics issues smaller conferences have to figure out
Given the amount of smoke around it, FOX probably back channeled to Big East to do it to get $X in new deal or even be considered for new deal with FOX and feels like an inevitability.
There is no smoke. It’s imaginary. Fox doesn’t give two craps for Gonzaga. They have no alumni. No fans.
Ray Meyer (1953–84) had 724 wins
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It did work for Butler. Chris Holtmann was awesome and Thad Matta is a hell of a coach that they just hired and should keep them in the "regularly qualifying for the tournament" camp.
Are you assuming that Gonzaga would only join as a basketball only?
No
Make the tourney for a decade straight to enter the discussion.