Originally Posted by longtimefan
I think we easily would have given up Alabama or Vanderbilt for, say, Georgetown. Some of our home-and-homes come about because we can't get teams like Georgetown, and it seems SEC schools will schedule us. As for your last comment, that is more or less how the St Mary's series came about. We needed a good game and apparently Neil convinced St Mary's that they also needed a good game. And we may have approached St Mary's because we couldn't get a team like Georgetown (just using them as an example because they are a big name in the Big East who apparently won't play us).
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Saying Georgetown won't play Dayton because they don't want to is actually entirely believable. Georgetown won't play GW either, which is a shame. Georgetown was in the Maui, and locked into the Gavitt Games match-up against Maryland, and locked into playing Syracuse. Of their seven remaining games, six were home buy games, which is how they like to schedule.
Saying Georgetown won't play Dayton because the Big East league office is telling the Big East to not play Atlantic Ten teams, or specifically not to play Dayton is the kind of thing that people say as they're reaching for their tin foil hats. Of the seven remaining games that they weren't locked into, six were buy games (as mentioned earlier), and the other was against
La Salle, who's an A10 team.
When you're playing an eighteen game conference schedule, and playing in an exempt tournament, and have a set number of home games that you feel you must play, that doesn't leave a whole lot of flexibility, especially if the teams you're trying to schedule have the same limited flexibility, which most of the Big East does.