"New" Big East/A10 Lament from Philly

[Taj79]

Dick Jerardi is a pretty fair-to-middling, long-time basketball beat writer to the Philly area. He posted the following on the "new" conferences staring down the barrel at Philly's schools. No one city will be affected as much as the comings and goings of these conference shifts as Philly. All "Big Five" schools sans Penn are involved. In his estimation, Nova remains even, but Temple, St. Joe's and La Salle all lose.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/20130306_Big_East__Atlantic_10_tourneys_will_never_be_same.html

They lose by different methods ... Temple chose it bed and now may not be happy with its selection at this point. St. Joe's and La Salle are affected through no fault of their own but actions generated outside their control. He also says that Saint Louis is "probably" in along the "new" Big East as well as Creighton and Dayton. VCU and Richmond seem passing fancies right now.

Interesting that he can find no "new" fits to add to the A10. That "new" A10 is pretty wasted.

[Taj79]

Here's the same paper's take (differne twriter that I don't know as much about) on Villanova. Who they say, "got lucky."

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/20130306_Villanova_got_lucky_with_conference_moves.html

Three things interesting here .... the per household payout for folks in associations like the Big Ten and their own networks, the linchpin case that seems to be hinging on the Maryland/ACC exit fee battle, and the extended rumors ... Florida State and Clemson to the Big Twelve, Georgia Tech and Virginia to the Big Ten, and unnamed ACCers going off to the SEC.

And here I thought March Madness meant the usual .....

[kshoe]

Dick Jerardi is a pretty fair-to-middling, long-time basketball beat writer to the Philly area. He posted the following on the "new" conferences staring down the barrel at Philly's schools. No one city will be affected as much as the comings and goings of these conference shifts as Philly. All "Big Five" schools sans Penn are involved. In his estimation, Nova remains even, but Temple, St. Joe's and La Salle all lose.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/20130306_Big_East__Atlantic_10_tourneys_will_never_be_same.html

They lose by different methods ... Temple chose it bed and now may not be happy with its selection at this point. St. Joe's and La Salle are affected through no fault of their own but actions generated outside their control. He also says that Saint Louis is "probably" in along the "new" Big East as well as Creighton and Dayton. VCU and Richmond seem passing fancies right now.

Interesting that he can find no "new" fits to add to the A10. That "new" A10 is pretty wasted.

Re Temple: while I'm sure they aren't thrilled to be joining the nameless version of the Big East I'm not sure they would do anything different if they had to do it all over again. What was their other choice? Ignore the Big East overtures and stick with the A-10? They'd be stuck in the watered down A-10 rather than in a conference with Cinci, UConn, Memphis, etc. Their football would be even worse off in the MAC.

They did what they had to do and unfortunately for them it didn't work out the way they hoped but they really had no other choice.

[Taj79]

@kshoe --- agree.

[MusicCityBilliken]

@kshoe --- agree.

Temple just needs to sit tight.

If FL State & Clemson run to the Big 12 (why they would is beyond me), they could slip into the ACC. If you add UConn, Temple with the tobacco road schools, that equates to a nice basketball conference. Also a nice football rivalry with Pitt and Syracuse.

The remaining Big East will be a new CUSA without the basketball powers when Cincy goes elsewhere.