Murphy's look back on conference realignment

[Bull Dozer]

Kind of unfair to only point to Cuse's football team when their basketball team is a national brand.  As for Rutger's **** em 

[George_Bullnard_Shaw]

3 hours ago, Capital H said:

Financially these schools benefited, but its a pretty clear argument for the P5/G5 divide. No meaningful success outside of one season at TCU where they got left out of the final 4. Most of the teams have wavered in the 6-6 range. Rutgers (and really Cuse) have been embarrassing.

The owners of the P5 had no problem throwing some money to get a few more doormats into their conferences.

[Danm1983]

2 hours ago, raptorcj said:

So much more than football in that alignment decision. Whether it should have JUST been about football is probably a good debate.

Yeah, i skimmed but it doesn't seem like it took into account the catholic schools of the big east that were fine with the exodus and used it to essentially leave 3 programs out in the cold (UCONN, USF, Cincinnati) and to an extent Temple and temporarily Louisville. And there's that whole "ND will never truly join a conference" thing too that could've played into some of it.

 

 

Hell, I still blame Penn State for not joining the Big East in the 90s.

[Bull Matrix]

Just waiting to see if both Texas and Oklahoma leave Big 12. WVU still being stuck on the east coast by their selves must suck to some extent. Hopefully they see it to add some big schools like USF and UCF when and if the time ever comes. Until then, USF is in good hands with MK that understands building USF strong across the board is what will position us the best.

[NewEnglandBull]

21 minutes ago, Danm1983 said:

Yeah, i skimmed but it doesn't seem like it took into account the catholic schools of the big east that were fine with the exodus and used it to essentially leave 3 programs out in the cold (UCONN, USF, Cincinnati) and to an extent Temple and temporarily Louisville. And there's that whole "ND will never truly join a conference" thing too that could've played into some of it.

 

 

Hell, I still blame Penn State for not joining the Big East in the 90s.

Actually the BE did not invite PSU, they wanted to become a member but the Catholic schools did not want their basketball.

[Triple B]

3 hours ago, George_Bullnard_Shaw said:

The owners of the P5 had no problem throwing some money to get a few more doormats into their conferences.

Which is why I think we should continue to tank until the next realignment ...

[NewEnglandBull]

2 minutes ago, Triple B said:

Which is why I think we should continue to tank until the next realignment ...

Unfortunately we don’t live in Big 10 territory...