Originally Posted by longtimefan67
Im not sure why this thread has been around so long. Xavier got out of the A10 by proving themselves worthy of a better league. When UD GOES 15 straight years to the dance, suitors will line up like Wichita St. had last year. It’s just silly to keep wanting to be in the Big East when we don’t come close to owning the A10. But if the conference as a whole starts owning the P5 preseason- it wouldnt matter since we’d regularly put 5-7 teams in based on that record- but the conference doesn’t do that on a regular basis. Part of that comes down to crappy TV contracts and part of that is teams with 2,000 seat “arena”. We came close a few years ago with 5 teams in and only UD that year proved It belonged.
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Although 4 in a row was a start and a good start at that, missing as badly as we have this year (not that anyone interested in the Tourney would pay attention to what we had as a record and how badly we sometimes played) it means that a rebuild is needed not a reload.
If we miss out again next year we start to look like a flash rather than a bright beacon of BB.
You get noticed one year at a time (as in what have you done lately?) Stringing multiple years once again needs to happen.
You don't get another conference interested in an arena, in a fan base without a PROGRAM. If that were the case you could sell the arena and the First 4 Hoopla (or whatever you call it) to a conference for some money and do something else ....