Re: Re: Conference Affiliations

[richard l. kandell]

I thought that Temple had been given it's walking papers with respect to its
inclusion in the BE for football, and don't they play in the A-10 for hoops?
Pitt & W. Va are attractive from a geographic standpoint, even Va Tech, and
along with UofL and Memphis represent as close to a cohesive geographic
combination of schools that UC is likely to find.  UConn is now playing Div
1 football (didn't we beat them year before last?) and combined with Rutgers
and UC that would provide 8 teams for football - and candidly Pitt (assuming
they find the right coach), UConn, and W. Va, all of which play football,
more than make up for the loss of Marquette, De Paul and St. Louis in hoops,
all of which don't.

If you want to follow Randy's ideas and expand to 12 teams I suppose you
could do so, but I wouldn't be in any sort of rush.  If you kept Temple for
football I'd want them included for all sports, thereby boosting hoops.
That's 9 and I guess you could take ECU and 2 other schools for 12, but then
we begin to make another mish mosh out of the geography and possibly a
negative impact on men's hoops.  I'd be very careful about doing it.

Richard K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Johnson" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Re: Conference Affiliations


> Me too.  There are several ways in which it would
> help, a few:
>
> - Football is definitely aided.  Being in the same
> conference as the likes of WVU, Pittsburgh, and Va
> Tech, you know there'll be plenty of fans at Nippert,
> albiet, unfortunately, many visiting ones.
>
> - Basketball doesn't take a hit.  We'd lose Charlotte
> and Marquette as rivals, but pick up UConn and Notre
> Dame.
>
> - Big East likely retains BCS status, and isn't that
> the primary motivation for the move.  Va Tech is still
> a solid enough football program to maintain BCS status
> for the Big East, although that's open to debate.
>
> Only negative I see is the continued inclusion of
> Rutgers and Temple.  Do those programs do well enough
> to turn a profit?  Still, playing them would beat
> having to play Tulane, Houston and USM.  Did anyone
> see that discrace of a home crowd when Memphis came to
> Houston this season?
>
> --- "richard l. kandell" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Even with those 3
> > schools leaving the Big East,
> > I'd leave C-USA and join the BE, especially if UofL
> > and Memphis are
> > included, in a New York minute.
> >
> > Richard K.
>
>
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