A10 Realignment

JPSchmack · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:21 pm **Posts:** 851

Quinn wrote:

JPSchmack wrote:

I assume you're the same BigE from the A10 basketball forum: http://www.basketballforum.com/atlantic-10-conference/

Sweet. We can talk about those posters behind their backs here!

Indeed. But with VCU and Butler joining, wouldnt' it be more constructive to leave that forum in favor of http://a10talk.com. One is run by A10 fans, one is just some general basketball forum that the A10 fans squatted on since it was an upgrade over the voy forum.

If I post on one and not the other, the people who don't like me have somewhere to go.

If my constant OOC scheduling and RPI rants annoy everyone to the point that I'm alone on the other board, the A10 guys will still have a board for and by A10 folks. If I did it the other way, they'd have to abandon ship for a generic forum.

bige · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:00 pm

JPSchmack wrote:

Quinn wrote:

JPSchmack wrote:

I assume you're the same BigE from the A10 basketball forum: http://www.basketballforum.com/atlantic-10-conference/

Sweet. We can talk about those posters behind their backs here!

Indeed. But with VCU and Butler joining, wouldnt' it be more constructive to leave that forum in favor of http://a10talk.com. One is run by A10 fans, one is just some general basketball forum that the A10 fans squatted on since it was an upgrade over the voy forum.

If I post on one and not the other, the people who don't like me have somewhere to go.

If my constant OOC scheduling and RPI rants annoy everyone to the point that I'm alone on the other board, the A10 guys will still have a board for and by A10 folks. If I did it the other way, they'd have to abandon ship for a generic forum.

A-10 posters using both for the time being

dgreco · **Joined:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:57 pm **Posts:** 74

new A-10 tv deal.

http://news.providencejournal.com/sport ... sence.html

freaked4collegefb · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:37 pm **Posts:** 7100

Hoops Weiss article comparing A-10 and BE BB after the latest round of conference realignment at http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/colle ... -1.1196396

JPSchmack · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:21 pm **Posts:** 851

Yeah, well, now I'm panicked.

fighting muskie · **Joined:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:47 am **Posts:** 414

JPSchmack wrote:

Yeah, well, now I'm panicked.

I guess that really depends on who your team is. If you follow Xavier or St Louis or Dayton you could potentially find your school in a better conference with the refugees from Big East Catholic basketball if the Big east splits now that the schools that bonded the Big East together are all gone.

JPSchmack · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:21 pm **Posts:** 851

fighting muskie wrote:

JPSchmack wrote:

Yeah, well, now I'm panicked.

I guess that really depends on who your team is. If you follow Xavier or St Louis or Dayton you could potentially find your school in a better conference with the refugees from Big East Catholic basketball if the Big east splits now that the schools that bonded the Big East together are all gone.

Undergrad at St. Bonaventure. Grad at Dayton.

I want my Bonnies in the #7 conference in basketball; not relegated to a lesser league.

tkalmus · **Joined:** Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 1043

JPSchmack wrote:

Undergrad at St. Bonaventure. Grad at Dayton.

I want my Bonnies in the #7 conference in basketball; not relegated to a lesser league.

So are you rooting for the ACC to take Nova/Gtown/StJohns thinking that the A10 would take DePaul, Seton Hall, Providence, and Marquette add go to 18?

Or do you think 16 is the max and they might split off into a more lean and mean conference?

Also random aside, George Mason is still waiting if they lose UMass to CUSA (after the BE trickle down)

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:16 pm

FYI JP was there that 1 year(2000) when they made the tourney and is on the 1 shinning moment video. We are from schools that suck at basketball but happened to be in college the short time they were good.

JPSchmack · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:21 pm **Posts:** 851

tkalmus wrote:

JPSchmack wrote:

Undergrad at St. Bonaventure. Grad at Dayton.

I want my Bonnies in the #7 conference in basketball; not relegated to a lesser league.

So are you rooting for the ACC to take Nova/Gtown/StJohns thinking that the A10 would take DePaul, Seton Hall, Providence, and Marquette add go to 18?

Or do you think 16 is the max and they might split off into a more lean and mean conference?

Also random aside, George Mason is still waiting if they lose UMass to CUSA (after the BE trickle down)

I'm not rooting for the ACC to take Nova/GTown/St.John's. If the Big East stays a hybrid, the A-10's #7.
If the ACC starts a hybrid, the Big East could raid the A-10; or worse, cause the top of the A-10 to start a new league with Marquette, DePaul, Providence and Seton Hall. No way my Bona gets an invite to that.

bige · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:57 pm

The Atlantic 10 has discussed the possibility of a 21-team basketball league in the event that the changing conference landscape makes high-profile Big East schools available, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told ESPN.com Tuesday.
The A-10 has been proactive over the last year, strengthening its brand as a high-profile basketball conference with the additions of Butler and VCU, two programs that were in the 2011 Final Four.
The A-10 currently is a 16-team conference for the 2012-13 season, but Temple and Charlotte are set to leave for the Big East and Conference USA, respectively.

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports. ... l-schools/

Quinn · **Joined:** Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:05 am **Posts:** 3762

With the reports that the A10 will reach out to the Big East non-football schools, a potential look of some division options:

EAST:
Massachusetts
Providence
Rhode Island
St. Johns
Fordham
Seton Hall
Villanova
Georgetown
George Washington
Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth

WEST:
Saint Louis
Depaul
Marquette
Butler
Dayton
Xavier
Duquesne
St. Bonaventure
Saint Joseph's
La Salle

- Nova gets to be lone Philly school in the east
- Gotta think it might make sense to include another western school like a Creighton for a balanced 22 if doing 2 divisions

tkalmus · **Joined:** Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 1043

Quinn wrote:

With the reports that the A10 will reach out to the Big East non-football schools, a potential look of some division options:

EAST:
Massachusetts
Providence
Rhode Island
St. Johns
Fordham
Seton Hall
Villanova
Georgetown
George Washington
Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth

WEST:
Saint Louis
Depaul
Marquette
Butler
Dayton
Xavier
Duquesne
St. Bonaventure
Saint Joseph's
La Salle

- Nova gets to be lone Philly school in the east
- Gotta think it might make sense to include another western school like a Creighton for a balanced 22 if doing 2 divisions

If they are serious about keeping 21 (and not going to 22)
NORTH:
Massachusetts
Providence
Rhode Island
St. Johns
Fordham
Seton Hall
St. Bonaventure (odd ball but fits)

EAST:
Saint Joseph's
Villanova
La Salle
Georgetown
George Washington
Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth

WEST:
Saint Louis
Depaul
Marquette
Butler
Dayton
Xavier
Duquesne (odd ball but fits)

Play everyone home and home in your division (12) plus 4 from each of the other 2 (4+4) and designate a "rival" in those games if needed. For the conference tourney take the top 2 from each division plus 2 at large for a simple seeded 8 or go to 16 giving the top 5 in each division bids plus 1 at large.

tute79 · **Joined:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:25 pm **Posts:** 1510

If there were a reason to merge with the A-10, you could get to 24, by bringing in UConn, Temple, and Cincy, and have those 3 play MAC FB along with UMass.
That would get MAC FB to 16.

Boise and SDSU back to the MWC, for 11/12 (BYU, Idaho, and NMSU are still out there....).

UCF, USF, ECU, Memphis, Houston, SMU talk to CUSA.... that would make 14 + 6 = 20.

CUSA + MWC would have 32 = 2 16-team conferences.

I know.... dream conference thread.... OR IS IT ???

Quinn · **Joined:** Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:05 am **Posts:** 3762

tute79 wrote:

If there were a reason to merge with the A-10, you could get to 24, by bringing in UConn, Temple, and Cincy, and have those 3 play MAC FB along with UMass.
That would get MAC FB to 16.

Boise and SDSU back to the MWC, for 11/12 (BYU, Idaho, and NMSU are still out there....).

UCF, USF, ECU, Memphis, Houston, SMU talk to CUSA.... that would make 14 + 6 = 20.

CUSA + MWC would have 32 = 2 16-team conferences.

I know.... dream conference thread.... OR IS IT ???

Look, I like the MAC...had a great year and it's where my school, UMass, is. But the Big East, even with CUSA members is still a better overall conference than the MAC would be for FB. Better TV money, better markets.

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