Originally Posted by longtimefan
Suggestions?
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I highly appreciate the idea that being a fast (or in our case moderately slow) follower isn't going to get it done in this marketplace.
How about this: UD leads the way to create a new preseason tournament. It's a 6 day extravaganza. Every conference outside the P6 (say 7-20) sends their best team; maybe a few of the higher conferences get to send 2 (as determined by the conference). Single elimination with consolation rounds so each team plays at least 2 games. Anyone in the P6 need not apply.
There are more colleges in Ohio than basically any other state. We could use UD arena, Nutter, and 2 dozen other venues within a 90 minute drive. It's not like there will be 10K fans for most games, 2-3K seats will be plenty.
Make it in early February. Schedule all the non-P6 conference games around it. How about really outside the box: the teams aren't picked until early January; like the NCAA tournament, you don't buy your tickets until you know you're in. Then each conference could schedule really light in the rest of February to give the better teams a chance to rest up.
So the P6 won't invite other teams for anything but buy games? Pi$$ on them. I'll bet you could see some great basketball. I think ESPN or Fox would clamor for great basketball content played 14 hours a day instead of reruns of the 1984 US Open.
