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Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:54 am**

St. Louis would be a decent addition, but maybe they are too good we need schools that are going to be easy wins, so maybe Duquesne or Belmont would be better fits. Dayton is way too good to be added, I can see them being .500 and taking precious wins from our bubble teams. We need more crappy teams guaranteed wins, last thing we need is Dayton stealing wins.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:55 am**

Bogg wrote:
MUBoxer wrote:Pros: Side project brewery, Perennial Artisan Ales, an unnamed taco spot in soulard,

I hate wasting money and time, yet I've been dragged to that hole of a city for a friends grad school graduation from SLU, my sister Irish dancing, a hurling tournament, my ex girlfriend moving there, my fiancés family vacation, and my friend's bday while he was there. I've explored it considerably (two BBQ spots, Italian on the hill, some 6+ breweries, taco spot that was actually good, their iconic Irish pub, the city museum, the arch, etc) and not once have I driven away feeling like I didn't waste my time and money (except at the aforementioned breweries). It's not a "hate boner" I just really hate wasting money and time. It took a third shot at Indianapolis before I changed my similar thoughts.

I just can't fathom adding Belmont with the primary justification being that Nashville has good bars. If a couple dozen Marquette fans want to catch live music then they should ask the AD to ink a series with Vandy.

Been there done that, they took my fake ID in 2010 thanks for reminding me.

But more seriously I'm just trying to think outside the box. If suddenly they pack the house because they've moved up from a crappy conference and still maintain success then I'd certainly give them a look at least.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:03 pm**

I've been to Nashville several times, in terms of ranking a city overall. I would put them ahead of indy, cincy, miltown, Omaha, newark, providence, uconn, and maybe DC. It's a great city definitely worth visiting only problem is the traffic but every city has traffic.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:12 pm**

jbarajas0490 wrote:St. Louis would be a decent addition, but maybe they are too good we need schools that are going to be easy wins, so maybe Duquesne or Belmont would be better fits. Dayton is way too good to be added, I can see them being .500 and taking precious wins from our bubble teams. We need more crappy teams guaranteed wins, last thing we need is Dayton stealing wins.

Why is this short-term thought so prevalent? Each year teams go up and down - unless we have relegation, this makes no sense to add a team based on THIS YEAR.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:06 pm**

jbarajas0490 wrote:I've been to Nashville several times, in terms of ranking a city overall. I would put them ahead of indy, cincy, miltown, Omaha, newark, providence, uconn, and maybe DC. It's a great city definitely worth visiting only problem is the traffic but every city has traffic.

You have to mask the trolling a bit, this is so transparent its actually funny.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:24 pm**

DudeAnon wrote:
jbarajas0490 wrote:I've been to Nashville several times, in terms of ranking a city overall. I would put them ahead of indy, cincy, miltown, Omaha, newark, providence, uconn, and maybe DC. It's a great city definitely worth visiting only problem is the traffic but every city has traffic.

You have to mask the trolling a bit, this is so transparent its actually funny.

Apparently UConn is a city now too!

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:25 pm**

I prefer if the Big East doesn't venture into the South. Lets leave it between the Northeast and Midwest

Nashville is definitely a fun city to drink and hang out, but adding Belmont U? Whatsss. no F'ing way! SEC Vandy hasn't found a way to be successful in anything down there.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:27 pm**

Bogg wrote:I just can't fathom adding Belmont with the primary justification being that Nashville has good bars. If a couple dozen Marquette fans want to catch live music then they should ask the AD to ink a series with Vandy.

I find it funny when a handful of very vocal fans talk about adding teams based on where they'd like to road trip to, lol. Thankfully I think this is a football thing and we don't get much of that in this conference.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:31 pm**

ecasadoSBU wrote:I prefer if the Big East doesn't venture into the South. Lets leave it between the Northeast and Midwest

Nashville is definitely a fun city to drink and hang out, but adding Belmont U? Whatsss. no F'ing way! SEC Vandy hasn't found a way to be successful in anything down there.

Last night on a weekday it sounded like there were more Volunteers fans at the Memorial.

Posted: **Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:49 pm**

Just posting this here for anyone questioning St. John's attendance at MSG and the importance of a rivalry vs Georgetown, even when both teams are mediocre and there's a pandemic.

https://twitter.com/AustinKarp/status/1 ... 6873420808

Red Storm's win over Georgetown on Sunday averaged 2.02 million viewers. Third-best college hoops audience ever for Fox Sports.

No. 1: St. John's-Xavier: Jan. 5, 2020: 2.31 million
No. 2: Duke-St. John's: Jan. 25, 2015: 2.17 million

Obviously this was largely due to it being after an NFL game, but clearly Fox knows something about big brands and big arenas. Nobody cares about how many fans Dayton draws in whatever their arena is called.

CBS has also aired this series a bunch in the past, so both networks I'm sure know it draws/retains eyeballs.

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