RE: Yet another conference scenario

[Brian Johnson]

A sixteen team conference - woohoo!! ;-)
--- "Shinkle, Randy" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > -----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 


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