Big East Meetings

[Jet915]

Big East meetings in Florida to start tomorrow until Wednesday. Hopefully, we get some answers after the meeting.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130518/BLUEJAYS/705189857/1070#large-meeting-agenda-awaiting-big-east-leaders

[Omaha1]

Strange if true:

“We’ll discuss the coaches’ recommendations on scheduling, conference tournaments, the hiring of officials,” Rasmussen said. “We might be able to get through some of the sports fairly quickly, but with others, there will be a lot to be discussed.”

Establishing a championships structure also will be on the table. Rasmussen said coaches in some sports have recommended not to hold a conference tournament, at least in the first season. The administrators will have to look at other sports to determine whether having a league tournament makes financial sense.

[Omaha1]

Holy crap this is really expensive:

An all-session ticket to the 2013 Big East tournament cost $440, and single-game tickets were not sold. The old Big East also never required schools to sell a minimum number of tickets.

Rasmussen said he might be in the minority that believes ticket prices should be reduced.

[DumpsterFireA10]

Strange if true:

“We’ll discuss the coaches’ recommendations on scheduling, conference tournaments, the hiring of officials,” Rasmussen said. “We might be able to get through some of the sports fairly quickly, but with others, there will be a lot to be discussed.”

Establishing a championships structure also will be on the table. Rasmussen said coaches in some sports have recommended not to hold a conference tournament, at least in the first season. The administrators will have to look at other sports to determine whether having a league tournament makes financial sense.

Odd after the fight for MSG to not have a tournament there.

[Omaha1]

It says basketball is set for MSG but other sports are considering not having league tourneys.

[yorost]

A lack of conference tournament is not odd for a sport. The conferences have been going towards tournaments, as they were not the norm for a long time. Even the B1G's for basketball isn't that old, and of course football still has conferences without any conference postseason. Conference tournaments are borderline meaningless. They offer more athletes to have a postseason and draw interest, but competitively speaking the regular season is more telling measure for a conference.

[admin]

Strange if true:

“We’ll discuss the coaches’ recommendations on scheduling, conference tournaments, the hiring of officials,” Rasmussen said. “We might be able to get through some of the sports fairly quickly, but with others, there will be a lot to be discussed.”

Establishing a championships structure also will be on the table. Rasmussen said coaches in some sports have recommended not to hold a conference tournament, at least in the first season. The administrators will have to look at other sports to determine whether having a league tournament makes financial sense.

Based on the reports of the Big East's financial situation and promising TV contract, it seems odd to me that we might not have conference tournaments for financial reasons. I wonder which sports would be impacted by this decision?

[redmen9194]

Other than men's and women's hoops I would guess that no other conference tourney is a money maker.

[admin]

Other than men's and women's hoops I would guess that no other conference tourney is a money maker.

Agreed, but I assume they never have been. I assume automatic NCAA bids would be determined by regular season play in this case.

[Jet915]

Other than men's and women's hoops I would guess that no other conference tourney is a money maker.

If soccer and baseball where held at Creighton, those might break even. Even if it didn't, if Fox Sports 1 or 2 would show the tournament, that might make it worth doing.