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Old 03-02-2018, 11:09 AM
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It certainly sounds like Gonzaga is really itching to get out of the WCC. The Gonzaga AD is openly talking about exploring his options, and Mark Few is publicly criticising the other members of the WCC, other than SMC and BYU.

It sounds like Gonzaga considers the other WCC members to be laggards and essentially leaches.

Hmmm, that sounds familiar.

And I was wrong about BYU, it sounds like the MW would welcome BYU back with open arms.



http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...228-story.html:

It is an open secret that Gonzaga has become increasingly frustrated in the WCC, in a sense subsidizing the rest of the conference with financial shares from its 19 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament (last year’s trip to the Final Four fetched $8.55 million). It is the WCC’s largest source of revenue and typically is split evenly among conference members, meaning bottom-feeders get the same cut as the team that earns them.

Gonzaga has been linked several times with the Big East, although travel logistics almost certainly preclude that.

“The Mountain West by its very name is in the West,” Roth said. “Geographically, yeah, there are things that make that different than a discussion with a conference that isn’t here.”

Asked whether playing in a conference with more high-level teams is attractive, Roth said: “That’s without a doubt. I don’t think anybody questions that. If travel and geography weren’t an issue, then that would open up all kinds of possibilities for a school like Gonzaga that has such a high basketball profile. Unfortunately, that mode of transportation isn’t quite there yet. We’ll have to get Star Trek to work on that.”

But it’s not just Roth. Several sources said Bulldogs coach Mark Few is involved in the Mountain West discussions and intrigued by the possibility, particularly if BYU follows. Adding those two schools, and assuming San Diego State, UNLV and New Mexico can return to their past levels, could elevate the Mountain West to the premier basketball conference in the western third of the country — at least on par if not ahead of the Pac-12.

"Our league needs to really step back and take notice,” Few told the Spokane Spokesman-Review in 2016. “It's time for some of these other institutions to start picking it up. They're really dragging the top three down."
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