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RE: What Conference does ECU Join for Olympics?
(11-27-2012 04:30 PM)Raleighwood Pirate Wrote: (11-27-2012 04:12 PM)GrayBeard Wrote: I don't get this at all. What do we actually gain by making this move? Do we get to negotiate our own TV contracts?
We better not have to pay an exit fee. I don't like the football only move at all. I am angry about it.
Even worse would you have to pay an exit fee and two entry fees? Not sure how all this works.
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11-27-2012 04:48 PM |
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PirateNation
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RE: What Conference does ECU Join for Olympics?
As of right now, we do not have a conference for our other sports. Guess we'll wait and see
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11-27-2012 04:56 PM |
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RE: What Conference does ECU Join for Olympics?
this is a pretty simple move, the money ECU makes as a member of the Big East football only is going to be alot more than it would make as a full member in c-usa. football only members can expect atleast 6 million dollars while c-usa is looking at 2-3 million for everything. so they save money by placing their b-ball& olympic sports in a regional conference like the CAA.
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RE: What Conference does ECU Join for Olympics?
I'm as big a basketball fan but there is but no way this is a negative for ECU athletics. We have our foot in the door now just like when we started in old-USA, and just like how Virginia Tech and West Virginia started in the Big East. More likely than not based on history is we will eventually get in for all sports at somepoint whatever the Big East becomes. Other than Boise State we are really the only school not added for market so we overcame a lot just to be in this position even.
In the meantime we put our other sports elsewhere A10, CAA, Southern, Big South, ASun doesn't really matter. We are still better off. With 5 or 6 times the TV money we will have a lot more to spend on those other sports. I would think with the already increased focus on basketball the last two years, we will put even more of this new money into basketball now in the hopes to speed up the process if/when the time comes to join in all sports.
Regardless where ever we land there is access to the NCAA's maybe even easier access the lower you go. With better resources on the way from this deal there is no reason we shouldn't be one of the top supported teams in whatever conference we go to in every sport, and have the success that comes with it. If that's the ASun, fine, we should dominate and go to the NCAA's every year in about everything. If it's the A10 we should have a team that can compete for at larges with the rest of them in basketball with the new resources. Nothing negative about this day anyway you look at it and we have the big boy sport a seat at that table which is what matters most, and a foot in the door for everything else.
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2012 06:26 PM by StillJonesing.)
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11-27-2012 06:17 PM |
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RE: What Conference does ECU Join for Olympics?
So are these the options? Are there any other realistic ones?
Atlantic 10 Conference - (non-footbail) - 14 members - Butler, George Washington, UMass, Richmond, VCU, Xavier...
Colonial Athletic Association - (FCS) - 9 members - Delaware, George Mason, JMU, Towson, UNCW, W&M...
Southern Conference - (FCS) - 12 members - App State, Elon, UNCG, Western Carolina, CofC, Davidson...
From a member standpoint, it is CAA. One would think we should aim for A10. But, an odd number seems to be a big hindrance.
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