ShockValue wrote:A serious question using a hypothetical situation for CU fans. If the A-10 called tomorrow and offered a spot to CU along with say Butler or someone else, would you take it? Remember Majerus doesn't even want to be in the A10.
I'd think it would have to be considered carefully, but I'm unsure what I'd say right now. Excellent question. I can say what I think, but have no idea if my feelings are in line with the administration's.
On the "pro" side, I just don't have a lot of good feelings on the long term sustainability of this conference. Some of the football schools desperately want to move up a level and would probably bolt if they have the opportunity. The football schools that aren't looking to move up a level are so broke that they can't fire coaches they want to get rid of, have to threaten to drop down a division to scare state legislatures away from taking away their gov't handouts, etc. Some of the other schools are not willing to invest the funds or don't have the funds to be competitive on a regular basis. On top of that, Creighton doesn't really have any peer schools in the conference (there are private schools like Drake, Bradley, Evansville which are probably the most similar, but non of them have a religious basis), whereas the A10 is full of religious based, private schools. The A10 also doesn't really have a football problem outside of perhaps Temple.
On the con side would be the travel impact - additional missed class time for student athletes and tremendous additional expense. One thing to note though is that Creighton (along with WSU), unlike the MVC schools on the eastern side of the conference, doesn't have any close conference opponents outside of Drake right now. As a result, although travel would be an issue with the move, it isn't like travel isn't already an issue most of the time already and doesn't already eliminate a chance for a lot of geographic rivalries.
Majerus isn't fond of the A10 because of all of the travel and lack of geographic rivalries. IF CU were to receive an offer, my hope would be that it includes offers to a few midwestern cities to give us a chance at some geographic rivalries along with the ability to break up the conference into west & east divisions to perhaps cut down on some of the need to travel all the way out east as often.
What do you think would be WSU's feelings about an A10 offer?