RE: Yet another conference scenario

[Shinkle, Randy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Pappas [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:53 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Yet another conference scenario
>
>
> I have a hard time seeing the Big East adding more basketball only
> schools, especially one from as far west as Milwaukee. I 
> don't see very
> many of the current members wanting to travel to Wisconsin, kind of
> takes away from it being called the Big East. 
>
> Besides, why would Xavier be a better choice than some of the other
> schools like a Temple?
>
> --Brett


I find Xavier's inclusion odd, too, and this is not a shot at XU.  Maybe it has to do with athletic budget, facilities, number of sponsored sports, etc.  But why would the Big East want a second member in Cincinnati instead of, say, DePaul, which is recovering in men's basketball, has more of a history than XU with Notre Dame and the C-USA schools involved (other than UC), and is in the second largest market in the country not on the left coast?

Anyway, what this tells us is there may be a real push to preserve the current Big East in a modified form, at least for the time being.  Remember, Big East founder Dave Gavitt is supposedly behind this, and I'm sure he still wields some political power.

Randy '78


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wedinger, Keith [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:09 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [UC Basketball] Yet another conference scenario
>
> Check out this story from the Cincy Enquirer:
> http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/06/06/spt_bigeast.rtf.html
> <http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/06/06/spt_bigeast.rtf.html> 
>
> This proposal has some merit.  And I certainly wouldn't mind 
> having the
> XU
> game mean more than just bragging rights.
>
> J. Keith Wedinger 
> Senior Software Developer 
> Sterling Commerce