Thamel Article on what

[sabach]

the issues are now that the Catholic 7 are leaving. Love the throw in comment about Rutgers never qualifying for an NCAA tourney in its entire existence in the BE.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/news/20121213/big-east-basketball/index.html

 

[Corpi33]

The jab at Rutgers was the best part of the article...you'll get nothing and like it...Good luck in the Big 10.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

If the seven schools leave, it's likely that they'll be able to take the league's automatic qualification with them. NCAA rules state that a baseline for an automatic bid in the NCAA tournament is a collection of seven schools that have been playing together for five or more years. The seven Catholic schools have that and will be able to take a bid with them. A source said that the NCAA, because of the volatility in the landscape, would strongly consider granting the hodgepodge leftover Big East schools a waiver for an automatic bid. (And there would be decent basketball with UConn, Cincinnati and Memphis).

Another auto-bid means what ... one less at-large team or do we go to 69?

 

[JOC44]

If we get our NCAA Tournament credits back TGD should send Aresco and Tulane a fruit basket.

Most likely, the reason the Catholic schools are now said to be leaning against dissolving the league is that they might not get to keep our units. They can probably swing a deal with the football schools to simply break away and agree on how to divvy up the league units (including the units associated with the departing teams) as well as exit fees not yet paid. I imagine the thought process is how to strucutre the divorce so that the teams remaining as of today get to keep everything the departing schools are giving up.