Catholic Basketball League

[Jet915]

This is what it hopefully would look like:

East
G'Town
St. Johns
Seton Hall
St. Joes
Nova
Providence

West
Xavier
Marquette
Dayton
SLU
Depaul
Creighton

[CUOldfan]

We can dream, can't we. That would be an amazing conference for CU.

[Haha]

Just don't call it the Missouri Catholic League. That will seem regional and small time and then your league won't be worth a crap.

[LMS]

Fr. Lannon weighs in:

A former president of St. Joseph's in Philadelphia, Lannon has contacts in the Atlantic 10 Conference and Big East. He's playing his comments straight down the middle, as he should.

“I talked with some of the presidents of the Atlantic 10 and some in the Big East, and my comment to them was if there is a change or opportunity, that we would have an interest, at least in talking to them,” Lannon said.

“I want to make sure I say this: I'm very happy with the Missouri Valley Conference. I'm very happy with (Commissioner) Doug Elgin. I'm chair of the (Valley) president's council, and I work closely with Doug and I really like what he's trying to do. He's got his sensors out looking for opportunity (expansion) for the Valley as well.”

Ask Lannon what CU should do if approached by the Big East private schools and he says, “I prefer not to discuss this with you before I discuss it with my board of trustees. I do have an opinion, but it's not to be shared with the media.”

http://www.omaha.com/article/20121128/B ... /711289843

[MVCfans]

The Valley has no exit fee?

[agrinut]

The Valley has no exit fee?

Moats mentioned the exit fee was in the neighborhood of 50K.

[glm38]

Really interesting that G McDermott doesn't seem to be in interested in leaving the MVC at all.

[agrinut]

Really interesting that G McDermott doesn't seem to be in interested in leaving the MVC at all.

He still has nightmares of the BIG12. I think he likes being the Big fish in a Small Pond.

[LMS]

Really interesting that G McDermott doesn't seem to be in interested in leaving the MVC at all.

He still has nightmares of the BIG12. I think he likes being the Big fish in a Small Pond.

I don't think coaches of any of the schools moving around are probably happy. A new conference likely makes their job harder. We'd been told that the CU coaches and AD were pretty much opposed to changing conferences but that Fr. Lannon really wants to. Guess who makes the final decision though.

[Haha]

Really interesting that G McDermott doesn't seem to be in interested in leaving the MVC at all.

He still has nightmares of the BIG12. I think he likes being the Big fish in a Small Pond.

I don't think coaches of any of the schools moving around are probably happy. A new conference likely makes their job harder. We'd been told that the CU coaches and AD were pretty much opposed to changing conferences but that Fr. Lannon really wants to. Guess who makes the final decision though.

I imagine he has that same mindset as all the other school presidents in the A-10. Must have connections with NY, DC, Philly. I get that if thats the schools desire/mission.

Even if it wasn't, why wouldn't you want to move into some sort of big east/a-10 melting pot?