RE: Future Big East Schedule

[Shinkle, Randy]

When they were 9 team conferences, both the Big East and the ACC placed
7 teams in the NCAA tournament at least once.
 
Yes, the conference schedule will be brutal, but it will also be
lucrative.  We'll see which one matters more.  :-)
 
Randy '78
 

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From: Brad Holdheide [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:08 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Future Big East Schedule


If the Big East splits in 2010, adds Memphis and ND as proposed and goes
to a double round robin basketball schedule (playing 9 teams twice) that
means UC's conference basketball schedule would be as follows:
 
2 games against #1 UConn
2 against #3 Memphis
2 against #9 Pitt
2 against #11 West Virginia
2 against Syracuse (perrenial powerhouse and Top 25 last week)
2 against Louisville (perrenial powerhouse and Top 25 last week)
 
That schedule is just way to ridiculous!  Would it be possible for a 10
team league to get 8 teams in the NCAA tourney?
 
And if #4 Nova moves their football program up to D1 level and takes the
place of Notre Dame that would make the basketball schedule even more
unbelievable.
 


> > > address@hidden 1/30/2006 4:57 PM >>>

> When the TV contract expires after next year (I think), I expect the
Big East to go
> to a 15+1 schedule where all teams play each other with only 1 home
and home.
> Jon


It appears the NCAA is likely to approve a change in the basketball
schedule this year.  Currently, each school may play a maximum of 27
regular season games, and one of them can represent an entire "exempt"
tournament twice in a 4 year period.  The proposal is to allow 28
regular season games and participation in an exempt tournament every
year.  See here for details:

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/newsdetail?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/co
nnect/NCAA/NCAA+News/NCAA+News+Online/Division+I/Division+I+gauges+membe
r+interest+in+basketball+issue+-+1-16-06+NCAA+News&TITLE=Division+I+gaug
es+member+interest+in+basketball+issue+-+1-16-06+NCAA+News

If this change is made, I expect the Big East to move to an 18 game
schedule, playing 3 teams twice and everyone else once.  The coaches
were opposed to this in the past because they believed it would limit
the non-conference schedule too much, but with the proposed change that
problem essentially goes away.

Along with the 12 game football schedule, this also makes it more
feasible for 10 team conferences such as the Pac 10 to play full
round-robin schedules in football and double round-robin in basketball.
Having an even number of teams in a conference makes it much easier to
set up a fair and balanced schedule in basketball, where (for example)
everyone plays a conference game each Thursday and Saturday (this is the
Pac 10 model).

Therefore, I expect the Big East to split in 2010 with each half
becoming a 10 school conference.  The 8 current football schools would
be joined by either 2 all-sports additions (playing an 8 or 9 game
football schedule) or by 1 addition plus Notre Dame, making it a 9 team
conference for football.  The candidates to be added have been discussed
at length in the past, centering on Central Florida, East Carolina and
Memphis.  The remaining 7 or 8 non-football schools would also go to 10
by adding schools such as Dayton, Holy Cross, Saint Louis or Xavier.

I don't think this was likely to happen this way until the football and
(proposed) basketball schedule changes came along.  Now I think this is
very likely.

Randy '78


 


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