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Temple is reportedly leaving the A10 for the Big East. There is some speculation that this move could cause UMass to also leave, but for CUSA/MWC/whatever they are calling that combined mess (UMass and Temple are MAC schools for FB currently and our both making moves for their FB programs).
Personally, I've got some real concerns about the financial stability of most of the football schools in the MVC. SIU is so broke they can't fire Lowery, UNI threatens dropping to D2 or worse if the state of Iowa cuts their funding any further, MSU is liquidating assets to pay bills, Indy St loses head coaches because they can get better pay as BCS assistants, etc.
What about the A10 as an opportunity. I'm think about Creighton and WSU, perhaps even including a Bradley and Drake to assist us with travel for Olympic sports (I'd want to stay away from the FB schools because they will always either have $ problems or be looking to move up to a BCS conference), making a move. With the A10's stable of teams, plus CU, WSU, BU and Drake or somebody else, we'd have a sustainable, premier basketball conference with some decent media markets and no football entanglements.
Travel costs would probably be a bit of a concern for the olympic sports, so breaking the conference into Eastern/Western divisions like some of the BCS conferences do may be necessary.
The biggest concern would be keeping the schools like Xavier, Dayton, etc. from bolting if the Big East breaks up. Since football drives the money bus, I think that an explosion of the BIg East isn't really as likely as it once seemed.
Thoughts?
Personally, I've got some real concerns about the financial stability of most of the football schools in the MVC. SIU is so broke they can't fire Lowery, UNI threatens dropping to D2 or worse if the state of Iowa cuts their funding any further, MSU is liquidating assets to pay bills, Indy St loses head coaches because they can get better pay as BCS assistants, etc.
What about the A10 as an opportunity. I'm think about Creighton and WSU, perhaps even including a Bradley and Drake to assist us with travel for Olympic sports (I'd want to stay away from the FB schools because they will always either have $ problems or be looking to move up to a BCS conference), making a move. With the A10's stable of teams, plus CU, WSU, BU and Drake or somebody else, we'd have a sustainable, premier basketball conference with some decent media markets and no football entanglements.
Travel costs would probably be a bit of a concern for the olympic sports, so breaking the conference into Eastern/Western divisions like some of the BCS conferences do may be necessary.
The biggest concern would be keeping the schools like Xavier, Dayton, etc. from bolting if the Big East breaks up. Since football drives the money bus, I think that an explosion of the BIg East isn't really as likely as it once seemed.
Thoughts?
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