Accept or Reject?

[PorkTornado]

The other fear I would have, will the fan base accept change? May be easier said than done.
This is just my opinion..but if a school starts changing conferences...why not do it again..and again.

If a fan base isn't accepting of a change like this, its an extremely uninterested and uneducated fanbase.

[WhiskeySierraUniform]

I believe the key in all of this is IF OFFERED. I'm not convinced that CU will be offered by the C7, at least not in the first round of added teams.

[Red]

If offered, you gotta go.

[shoxrox]

I wouldn't blame Creighton for leaving, but I'm not going to have sympathy for them either if they become a middling team in that conference.

Personally, outside of Marquette and maybe Georgetown, I don't see a lot of strong basketball programs currently. Yah, I know it's a money thing, but meh, it's basically a watered-down Big East.

[DoubleJayAlum]

I wouldn't blame Creighton for leaving, but I'm not going to have sympathy for them either if they become a middling team in that conference.

Personally, outside of Marquette and maybe Georgetown, I don't see a lot of strong basketball programs currently. Yah, I know it's a money thing, but meh, it's basically a watered-down Big East.

The questions posed was whether you would or would not want your school to accept an offer if proffered.

[DoubleJayAlum]

I believe the key in all of this is IF OFFERED. I'm not convinced that CU will be offered by the C7, at least not in the first round of added teams.

I don't think any Creighton fans are convinced of anything either. I'd describe the fanbase as "cautiously optimistic."

[musiccitybulldog]

The other fear I would have, will the fan base accept change? May be easier said than done.
This is just my opinion..but if a school starts changing conferences...why not do it again..and again.

If a fan base isn't accepting of a change like this, its an extremely uninterested and uneducated fanbase.

My thought is more on what fans have become used to as far as expectation, and Fan excitement per opponents team. Georgetown would be the only team I would be excited to see, to a lesser amount Gonzaga, Marquette. I think this excitement changes when conferences change members. I know it did me when Louisville and Memphis left, I enjoyed seeing them every year. So I think as a fan it goes both ways, what you lose and what you gain as far as expectation. My guess there are a lot of fans that could care less about RPI and the road to the NCAA, although they want their team to succeed, based on what they have been exposed as far as competition currently at games sets the fans involvement level. That could change with a totally new cast of teams.

[MoValley John]

It would be easy for fans to get excited with the thoughts of having home games every year with the likes of Georgetown, Marquette and Xavier. There are a few dogs, but face it, the Valley, even in good years, is ho hum with regards to competition. Even when they were good, outside of maybe Drake, did anyone really get excited when UNI came to town? The same can be said for just about every Valley opponent. You might have one rival followed by who gives a crap. It is always more exciting and more interesting playing at home to a bad BCS team than playing a Valley frontrunner. The new league would have name recognition week in and week out. Even if you were a middling in that league, it would be more fun for the fans.

[Smooth007]

If they were an equal partner in voting and revenue sharing, it is a no brainer to accept. If offerred something less, they should weigh the pro's/con's.

[DoubleJayAlum]

The other fear I would have, will the fan base accept change? May be easier said than done.
This is just my opinion..but if a school starts changing conferences...why not do it again..and again.

If a fan base isn't accepting of a change like this, its an extremely uninterested and uneducated fanbase.

My thought is more on what fans have become used to as far as expectation, and Fan excitement per opponents team. Georgetown would be the only team I would be excited to see, to a lesser amount Gonzaga, Marquette. I think this excitement changes when conferences change members. I know it did me when Louisville and Memphis left, I enjoyed seeing them every year. So I think as a fan it goes both ways, what you lose and what you gain as far as expectation. My guess there are a lot of fans that could care less about RPI and the road to the NCAA, although they want their team to succeed, based on what they have been exposed as far as competition currently at games sets the fans involvement level. That could change with a totally new cast of teams.

I spoke about this the other day. The problem is that Creighton doesn't really have any similar schools in the conference; and outside of Drake (and maybe UNI, although that is stretching it) there aren't any teams that are located close to Omaha either. We've had a hard time developing rivalries as a result. Adding schools like Marquette, Xavier, Depaul and SLU and we'd have instant rivalries with schools causal fans are more familiar with and that Catholics have ties to due to siblings and other family members attending those institutions.

Very rarely do you have a family have one kid attend Creighton and another kid attend a different MVC school. Eliminate Drake and UNI as possibilities and it probably happens next to never. Illinois schools, on the other hand, probably experience this situation all the time, making rivalries really easy to develop.