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Shatel: Athletic directors like Creighton's Bruce Rasmussen are preparing for the unknown
When it comes to sports, the pandemic has taught us to think outside the box.
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“A good example would be this: The Big East and Big Ten are almost in an identical footprint,” Rasmussen said. “So why couldn’t you have men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, soccer, where we play more regionally. And we have an alliance where the Big Ten and Big East partner.”
Rasmussen isn’t talking about nonconference games. He’s talking about, for one year (or however long it takes), combining the Big Ten and the Big East.
For instance, take the Big Ten West schools and put them with Creighton, Marquette, DePaul and Butler. Then the East Coast Big East schools with the Big Ten East.
You would award champions of the two super divisions — the Delany and Gavitt divisions — and qualify a limited number to a Big Ten/East Alliance tourney (Big Ten volleyball would do this for one season).