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The Big East Break-Up and the Changing Economics of College Sports

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  December 20th, 2012 at 10:01 AM  | 

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Dan Levy to discuss the recent breakup of the Big East conference, what this means for the basketball schools that departed and the handful of football schools that are left.

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Big East breakup leaves unanswered questions
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  • http://ArbiterOfCommonSense.blogspot.com Trubador

    As a Villanova grad (Class of ’85… yes, THAT class), I and a friend of mine (another Villanova grad from the 70s) have been dreaming about a men’s basketball conference that would be a blend of mostly various Catholic schools from the Big East and a few other conferences that were strong in college hoops in that general region.

    Our dream conference may finally come to pass. :-)

    I think Xavier, Dayton and Butler from the A-10, plus Creighton from the Missouri Valley would be the best fit with the C-7 of the Big East. Those four teams each have a past-two-decade success history in men’s hoops and would fit in well. That would bring the new league to 11 schools.

    The 12th member could be Notre Dame (who is supposed to go to the ACC next year, except for football & hockey). They could stay with the C-7 and make it the C-8, plus the four others mentioned above. Butler being the only non-Catholic school.

    Villanova (PA)
    Georgetown (MD)
    St. John’s (NY)
    Seton Hall (NJ)
    Providence (RI)
    Xavier (OH)
    Dayton (OH)
    Notre Dame (IN)
    Butler (IN)
    DePaul (IL)
    Marquette (WI)
    Creighton (NE)

    That’s a heck of a 12-school men’s hoops conference, plus a great conference for all other sports except top-tier football (all these schools are either second-tier football, or don’t have football at all).