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03-20-2013, 07:08 PM #1
Big East News
...he went up late, and I was already up there.
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03-20-2013, 07:21 PM #2
Apparently a new forum for Big East posts as well. Thanks Muskie - hope these also show up among recent posts as well.
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03-20-2013, 07:53 PM #3
I did see that ESPN put up the story on their BB page with a video of some lady doing a phone interview with Dana O'Neil.
They tried hard to be neutral...didn't quite get there....he went up late, and I was already up there.
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03-21-2013, 06:50 AM #4
From St Louis paper this morning:
Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell reported Sunday that a Big East source told him that if the league got its operations in order quickly, it could add two more teams for next season and SLU was a leading candidate.Along with SLU, Dayton and Richmond are considered candidates to join the league. The league would probably take just one Midwest school to keep a regional balance, though the possibility remains of expanding beyond 12 teams.
It would seem that 12 is still possible for next year, and that Richmond/VCU would be in the mix to balance the geography.
Other articles noted the confernce had applications from a number of schools.
It might be a SLU/Dayton and Richmond/VCU cage war at this point.
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/colle...965bce7ad.html...he went up late, and I was already up there.
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03-21-2013, 07:44 AM #5
Ok.
For now, enough of the VCU talk.
One item that has not been brought out, but is a significant fly in the ointment about VCU- and was related to me at the meeting that I attended Monday night with high level Xavier folks:
VCU is a public institution that is subject to sunshine laws as to public disclosure of documents. This extends to everything including the athletic programs. One of the things that the Big East Presidents are wanting to have is privacy- especially when it comes to financial dealings- so they don't have to worry about snoopy press. They have that with all private institutions who are not subject to disclosure. If VCU is let in, then every document that is related to league dealings becomes publically available through freedom of information.
Not saying that VCU is totally out forever, but this is a huge strike against them, besides the concern over institutional fit."I Got CHAMPIONS in that Lockerroom!" -Stanley Burrell
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03-21-2013, 07:48 AM #6
Why is that a big deal if they left a conference that had public institutions?
I don't get the privacy needs.Award Winning Poster Since 2015
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03-21-2013, 10:17 AM #7"He's a little bit ball-dominant, he needs to have the ball in his hands, and he's not a good shooter." Ball-dominant … isn't that a nice way of calling someone a ball hog? Where is my Jay Bilas Thesaurus?
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03-21-2013, 11:43 AM #8
Big East News
Santa Ono sent the ACC a five pound box of money?
- David Bowers ('95)
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03-22-2013, 11:15 PM #9
Big East News
The key point is that both their president and ours built relationships and campaigned heavily. I wonder if that was a deal maker.
- David Bowers ('95)
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03-28-2013, 12:14 PM #10
Big East News
http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?story...00&src=desktop
Lot of news in Katz' latest article.
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