Creighton averaged 17k fans last year, 6th nationally. I think this basketball-only merger stuff is a fantasy, but Creighton holds their own and then some. BE is lucky to have them and vice versa.
Settle down, fella. I never said I was unhappy that they were in the Big East. You'd have to explain how it makes sense for the ACC to pay them $17 million per year (the amount the ACC pays ND for Olympic sports). If you can't, then you'll finally understand the problem...
Do you think ND gets $17M for its Olympic sports, or is there some additional amount thrown in for scheduling and other things.
If the offer wasn't at least noticeably better than the current 7 million per year from the Big East, then it wouldn't happen on our end anyways. So even if we call it 13 million per team, and staying with the fantasy of cherry-picking non-football teams, I don't think Creighton is in the top 4 or 5 of their Big East wish list...
Although I think there would be a "prisoners dilemma" element here.
I don't even understand how a merger of conferences happens. The schools just vote behind Vals back?
Anyone that could go should go but I just see it becoming Big East 3.0 after a couple other schools leave in a decade. It'll end up a six team football league, and then we'll need to grab MAC schools to backfill to FBS. The basketball only schools will hate it like they did before and it'll cause a bunch of issues.
Creighton has certainly pulled its weight. The team performance and the fan base have been impressive. A merger is what the ACC whiffed on last time. The ACC tried to piecemeal it and the Big East teams floundered. A merger brings in the whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. Omaha is midwest. Creighton is better basketball than Nebraska. Marquette is better than Wiscy. Xavier can be better than Ohio State. DePaul God help us could be good someday. If the merger would make it the best basketball conference, even better to do it in the B1G footprint and attack both the B1G and SEC head on. Northeast, Midwest, Atlantic Coast.
Well, when it comes to realignment - this is my fear because hey see RULE#1 regarding realignment. They invite St. Johns, Georgetown, Creighton, Marquette Villanova and UConn*. But they tell UConn don't even think we will give you anything regarding football. In fact if you even broach the subject we will tear your invite up! ...and they would look at us as if we would need a large amount of feeding with regards to Football, regardless of the season we have had in football. Again to reiterate this is not what I want nor what I believe but this is the ACC. Again with realignment see RULE #1.
Any port in a storm, my friend.
Hell, if that's our strategy I'd start with a phone call to the B1G and tell them we're willing to join for all sports at $7 million a year.
This is 100% of what is happened to the big east. Instead of sticking together, each independently is going to do what’s best for them.
I started to like him around 2008 when he won with the Olympics. I don’t know, he grew on me and I think he is seriously pro UConn.
| NORTH | SOUTH |
| Boston College | Cal |
| Butler | Clemson |
| Creighton | Duke |
| DePaul | Florida State |
| Louisville | Georgetown |
| Marquette | Georgia Tech |
| Notre Dame | Gonzaga |
| Pittsburgh | Miami |
| Providence | NC State |
| Seton Hall | SMU |
| St. John's | Stanford |
| Syracuse | UNC |
| UConn | UVA |
| Villanova | Virginia Tech |
| Xavier | Wake Forest |
| NORTH | SOUTH |
| Boston College | Clemson |
| Cal | Duke |
| Louisville | Florida State |
| Pittsburgh | Georgia Tech |
| Stanford | Miami |
| Syracuse | NC State |
| UConn | SMU |
| UVA | UNC |
| Virgina Tech | Wake Forest |
