natetheskate wrote:
interesting but do you think DP would really let us in their conference?
https://thehoya.com/ramblers-flyers-zag ... expansion/It's really annoying but after 30+ years of experience, I can tell you... The Big East is steadfast in it's ways. It's not like DePaul alone can keep Loyola out of the Big East. It's that there's a united front of the original Big East Catholic 5, and DePaul and Xavier -- I don't know if it's unspoken, spoken, a gentleman's agreement, formal or informal, or what -- all of them are united in not letting someone from their region into the league. It's (again, someone tell me the word censor rules on this site)'ed my team since 1979.
All of us in the A-10 were totally shocked that Saint Louis and Dayton were not invited to the new Private Big East, and Butler and Creighton were ahead of them.
We had already added Butler, VCU and George Mason, knowing we'd lose members to the BE, and Temple to an FBS league. Davidson was pushing for Charleston and Elon to come with them for 14 teams; we were internally discussing the two, and then it was like "WOW... we still have UD and SLU"
It's incredibly frustrating, because my Bonnies are always going to be dismissed by the Big East for market reasons, even though that's really dumb because none of our alums live in the tiny town of campus, we live everywhere else and show up like "a cult in a good way" and Western New York has just as many people as the Saint Louis market, only with less competition; Dayton and Loyola are always going to be not considered because they already have Cincinnati and Chicago with Xavier and DePaul.
That's just the way it is, and that's why you guys belong with us in the A-10. Conferences ARE cartels, the world isn't fair, and we're the best have-nots in the world.
PS - Remember to go over screens on AJ Green.