SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jun 4, 2015 12:26:49 GMT -5
Actually --
Screw it. Accept if DC offers to buy up every unsold ticket to every game in the Verizon Center. If he's so sure that DC is just clamoring for this, have him put DC's money where it's mouth is.
And see if that passes.
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ksf42001
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Post by ksf42001 on Jun 4, 2015 12:36:40 GMT -5
Where would we even find space in our schedule to play these games? Last year, there were 11 non-conference games, with 4 being neutral court tournaments/one-game classics (not to mention Robert Morris also officially being a Battle 4 Atlantis game). I'm assuming the neutral court games make good money, so we won't turn those down. That leaves 7 games, which usually includes 3-4 cupcakes, 1-2 ranked teams, and 1-2 local teams (at the Towson/American level). I just don't see the point in replacing any of those games with another local school. Maybe every once in awhile it'd make sense to add another local school to the mix, but I don't want a system put in place that mandates it every year. Something tells me Nova would abandon the Big 5 if it wasn't such an institution.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jun 4, 2015 12:45:37 GMT -5
In 1955, when the Big 5 started, Temple, Villanova, Lasalle and Penn all spent time in the Top 25. If the Big 5 didn't already exist, there's no way anyone would start it today -- there's simple no real demand to watch Nova beat up on a bunch of teams.
We are already playing Maryland. Why would we do this again?
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Post by aleutianhoya on Jun 4, 2015 13:50:07 GMT -5
As I've said before, I'd be fully in favor of playing two or three DC teams annually (MD, plus GW or GMU, plus AU/Howard/[insert other DMV-area cupcake here]. Rotate them around so we play everyone periodically but never more than three total. Agree to home and home with MD (as we have), but never play any of the others on the road. We've traditionally played one (sometimes two) DC-area cupcakes each year. So, it wouldn't offend me to play GW or GMU instead of, say, a Charlotte or a Utah State or one of the other "one or two step above cupcake" teams we now traditionally schedule.
If you told me that doing it would be a financial boon due to attendance, I'd be all for it. But if you told me it wouldn't, I certainly wouldn't advocate for it.
In any event, a true Big 5 would be absurd. Nova would kill to get out of it at this point -- it really limits what they can do each year in terms of high-profile games. Sure, some years, one or more of those teams are good, but just as often they're not.
And SF, the other point about the history is that in 1955, every team was playing regional games for the most part anyway. In that same year, we played home and homes with AU, UMd, Mount St. Mary's, and GWU. We also played Loyola (MD). The furthest we went was a three-day road trip to upstate NY (Siena, the Bonnies, and Niagara) and a trip to Holy Cross.
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