That would be good for Gonzaga. They desperately need more pressure games in January and February.
Not going to debate the geography of Washington state being "East."
Could be time for some rebranding.
Seeing a lot of chatter on twitter that Gonzaga is going to announce it will join the Big East soon. That would only add to a hell of a conference for basketball. I wonder if other teams will be joining or just the 'Zags.
Seems like a conference realignment thread is in order for this summer. Here we go again...
That would be good for Gonzaga. They desperately need more pressure games in January and February.
Not going to debate the geography of Washington state being "East."
Could be time for some rebranding.
My hot take is that this won't help Gonzaga in the NCAAT. They are already one of the most successful programs in March. This is about money and relevance during the regular season.
Oh my! I wonder if the Big East adopts the PAC-12 scheduling. Where pair's of team travel to play two other paired schools on a given weekend -- i.e. like UConn/Prov playing Gonzaga/Creighton
well it certainly won't be the little east anymore...
Question is which is worse, their definition of east? The ACC's definition of "atlantic cost" or the B1G's definition of "10"
April 1
having lived on the west coast for a bit, games starting in the afternoon/early evening is a god-send. I assume they would give them the late game during the week, so at least home games are starting at 7.
But god, if I never had to endure another 9 or 930 start for duke, i would not be upset.
April 1
I vaguely recall San Diego St wanting to join the Big East. They then looked into the budget for their non-revenue sports and the cost of road trips to the east coast and abandoned the idea.
I feel like Gonzaga would make more sense in the American. First, the conference name doesn't bring with it geographic connotations. Second, they're already arguably the "next" conference after the Power 5 plus Big East. Third, its members are already sufficiently spread out across the country that adding the West Coast wouldn't be shocking.
That said, that's pure speculation on my part, and probably won't happen since the American also has a major football component, which the Big East lacks. But man it would be weird to see the Zags in the Big East.
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Time for a new name/rebranding - how about the “Big Country” conference? Perhaps this is good for Gonzaga for money reasons and also for stronger regular season competition…but, Spokane isn’t exactly close to most all of the other Big East schools.
For this reason, I’ve thought that W. Virginia in the Big 12 doesn’t make any sense. All about the almighty $$$…
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