JCT wrote:
We need to take smart buy games at mid to lower level P5.
We need to think about PAYING SOMETHING to bring better mid majors to Gentile for one shot deals... Like Belmont, SFA, San Francisco, NM State, etc.
We need to lean on Jesuit schools, and even lobby national Jesuit organizations to help put pressure on Creighton, Gonzaga, USF, Santa Clara, Holy Cross, Georgetown, BC, Xavier, Fairfield, Marquette, etc. to agree to a cross-conference scheduling agreement
Leverage scheduling... tell Northwestern, DePaul, UIC, and Notre Dame that we will not schedule them in any non-revenue sports unless one of them does a home and home every three years.
Push the MVC to do what Elgin said this weekend---- get an agreement with the WCC or another conference to boost scheduling.
Agree on most points. Kinda agree with the mid majors mainly because the Furman deal is turning into a disaster, especially if we lose to them next year. While I agree with the Jesuit point, I doubt we would need to pressure Fairfield or Holy Cross to play at Gentile. We could probably buy either of them.
That said, a lot of this is predicated on Porter swapping the non D-1 for a buy game, even if it's a ridiculous game like at Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc. From a numbers standpoint, we don't lose money on the non D-1 game and instead cash a $100k check. It's basically over a $100k swing in cash flow, which would allow us to invest more without having to ask for a bigger budget (which
always comes with pushback in any walk of life regardless of the organization).