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The Big 12 is the only conference I’d want to join at this point. They still have an exciting basketball product (unlike the Big 10) and we’d bring up the level of our football program substantially. I still think we have too many eyeballs and our basketball programs are too valuable to die is a basketball only catholic league. We shouldn’t be desperate and kill our football program or join a P5 in basketball only. Whoever gets us will get a ton of value from our basketball and will have to live with the state of our football program until it gets turned around.
 
Hurleyman216 said:
The Big 12 is the only conference I’d want to join at this point. They still have an exciting basketball product (unlike the Big 10) and we’d bring up the level of our football program substantially. I still think we have too many eyeballs and our basketball programs are too valuable to die is a basketball only catholic league. We shouldn’t be desperate and kill our football program or join a P5 in basketball only. Whoever gets us will get a ton of value from our basketball and will have to live with the state of our football program until it gets turned around.
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I agree with the last part.

But the B1G should still be the goal. It's not going to happen, but you'd have to think that, if they were adding us, they were making a basketball move and adding someone like Kansas or UNC as well.

It's a good basketball league as is, though, and it will always be safe. That's why you go with it.
 
CL82 said:
It sounded to me like an apology that the conference was not better couple with a promise to do better next year.

Honestly, it was better to be silent.
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See my comment above. The top of the conference was very good but DePaul would struggle in the NEC and Georgetown would be in the lower half of the MAAC if you go by metrics. So you can’t claim going 10-10 in the NEWBIE should get you in. Back in the day the ticket to the Dace for Big East teams was .500 in conference and 20 wins. Now you are really playing 16 conference games against true high majors. Based on the MAJOR portion of schedule St John’s was 6-10. Seton Hall had a better claim at 9-7. The worst Team in any other major conference was ranked 217, Louisville in the ACC. But none of them had multiple teams in the 200s and the PAC. Bid 12 and Big 10 had none. And none had anything approaching DePaul level ineptitude. An in a 14 or 16 team league, for example, there is more “room for error.” In an 11 team league playing a round robin format you are going to play 4 effective low mid-majors in conference. Finish .500 and you are screwed.
 
freescooter said:
See my comment above. The top of the conference was very good but DePaul would struggle in the NEC and Georgetown would be in the lower half of the MAAC if you go by metrics. So you can’t claim going 10-10 in the NEWBIE should get you in. Back in the day the ticket to the Dace for Big East teams was .500 in conference and 20 wins. Now you are really playing 16 conference games against true high majors. Based on the MAJOR portion of schedule St John’s was 6-10. Seton Hall had a better claim at 9-7. The worst Team in any other major conference was ranked 217, Louisville in the ACC. But none of them had multiple teams in the 200s and the PAC. Bid 12 and Big 10 had none. And none had anything approaching DePaul level ineptitude. An in a 14 or 16 team league, for example, there is more “room for error.” In an 11 team league playing a round robin format you are going to play 4 effective low mid-majors in conference. Finish .500 and you are screwed.
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freescooter said:
Here’s what the league office really needs to understand, and I think they do by the sound of this statement. “The problem is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

The real problem is that the NEWBIE has 2 teams that simply don’t matter. 10-10 with 4 wins against Georgetown and DePaul is not the same as 10-10 in any other major league. Those 4 games are like playing in the NEC-Big East Challenge. Ridiculous on its face, but not far from inaccurate. For some perspective on how bad those teams are, look at NET or really any of the other rating services. If it were possible to trade conference members, we would have been better off from a NET perspective with Central Connecticut (NET 249) and Fairfield (161) than Georgetown (205) and De Paul (320). In fact there were 5 teams from the NEC, Central’s league, with a better NET than DePaul, including LeMoyne which is in its first year of D1.

So rather than complain about the system, or the committee or some nefarious plot against the Conference, they should be looking to the Hoyas and Blue Demons. Playing 2 teams in conference that are in essence low mid majors does a huge damage to bubble teams so you have to counteract that by playing, and beating, good non-conference opponents. The League must push those teams either must significantly improve and everyone else to schedule assuming they won’t, or bubble teams from the NEWBIE will be in trouble again and again.
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I think Cooley has what it takes to turn Georgetown around unless the inter-conference fiasco undermines him. Georgetown needs to be a player in the conference.
DePaul hired a new coach but if it is possible to turn that program around, it might take a very long time.
Either way, with only 11 teams, the conference can't afford to have 2 such anchors. I agree bubble teams may continue to get burned. Most seem to think DePaul can't get kicked out. Maybe Holtmann can hit the portal hard and find some diamonds at mid-majors just hoping to get a chance to play in the Big East.
 
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This take will probably get panned, but Aresco was a fighter for the AAC. He marketed the P6 and he advocated for his conference and schools. That is what Ackerman needs to do. And, the AAC was successful in helping Houston, UCF, and Cincinnati to the Big 12 and I think you have to give Aresco some credit for that. Unfortunately, the AAC didn't work out for UConn, but I would blame the UConn administration for not emphasizing football enough.
 
UConnJim said:
This take will probably get panned, but Aresco was a fighter for the AAC. He marketed the P6 and he advocated for his conference and schools. That is what Ackerman needs to do. And, the AAC was successful in helping Houston, UCF, and Cincinnati to the Big 12 and I think you have to give Aresco some credit for that. Unfortunately, the AAC didn't work out for UConn, but I would blame the UConn administration for not emphasizing football enough.
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What Ackerman needs to do is walked out her office door and not return. I was called sexist last season criticizing her ineptitude. Now it is on public display like never before. Yet, the Big East Presidents can’t find the clarity and strength to do the obvious task of letting Val go. At this point if we must, pay Val for the rest of her life, give her some meaningless title with no responsibilities. Or have the MBB coaches vote a secret ballot on if she keeps her job. But, don’t have her screw things up further.
 
I hope the 3 BE teams make deep runs. It should give credence to any kind of "we told you so" mantra coming from the BE faithful. It is then when the BE office better come out screaming.
 
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The problem with Val, seems to be, she convinced herself the football powers would be willing to share the spotlight with the niche BE schools and maintain a status quo. She better re-think the role of the BE in the current college sports landscape.
 
Where is the Commissioner? Filing her UE paperwork. I can dream.
If this isn’t a firing offense - letting down the entire membership - both financially and brand - what is?
 
housekeys said:
The problem with Val, seems to be, she convinced herself the football powers would be willing to share the spotlight with the niche BE schools and maintain a status quo. She better re-think the role of the BE in the current college sports landscape.
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She also either continue to be or got lazy and has always lacked critical thinking skills.
If she identified as a man tomorrow - would he be in that job?
 
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