Show Your Work or STFU: A UM Conference Poll

[Canedude08]

We can recruit anywhere - but it makes a difference.

Think about it, you can have family and friends attend a few of your games a year if you are from Louisiana or Alabama and we are in the SEC, or none at all if we are in the B1G…

That will impact recruiting for sure. Mama Fletcher is a prime example - she was willing to drive to Stanford to see her kid play. How many moms are willing to do that?

With NIL, top end recruits can easily pay for their parents to fly to the games they want. What's your point? Keep in mind that Miami aggressively recruits places like NJ and the eastern seaboard, those parents would be able to make more games, so your point balances out. In the big picture, it makes far more sense for Miami to join the B1G.

 

[Canedude08]

Should the University of Miami's decision-makers take into account what's preferable/most convenient for the vast majority of UM's players and their families or what's preferable/most convenient for a quite a few alumni?

Pretty safe bet which option Mario would choose

Alumni are the primary donors, you may want not want to alienate them. Keep in mind, our student body also comes from the eastern seaboard, joining the B1G is a HUGE marketing opportunity for us, because it gets us in the face of the kind of prospective student that has historically attended the University. We want those top end kids from places like Maryland, NJ, NY, PA, etc. Us going to Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri does nothing in that regard.

Once again, joining the B1G makes far more sense, especially if you actually look at the overall University, as well as the athletic department. Miami wouldn't be some outlier institution, we actually fit there.

 

[LeanMeanOrangeGreen]

Taxing enough that East Coast NFL teams will stay out West for a week rather than return home if they have back-to-back games in that part of the country. The sports medicine experts have determined jet lag, sleep disruption and spending even 10 hours back-and-forth on a flight takes a severe toll on athletes competing on an elite level

The poor EQ truck driver who has to drive from Miami to Seattle lol

 

[LeanMeanOrangeGreen]

Go **** yourself.

Anyone can say anything they want. Two games does not equal representation of a conference, no matter what "patch" is sewn on the jersey.

Sheer stupidity. We were an independent in every meaningful way. We shared no conference revenue. We have no conference championship trophy. Not a single player from the 1991 team considers themselves to have played in the Big East Conference in 1991. We did nothing except play two teams that were already on our schedule.

But, yeah, if you want to lick some Big East balls, be my guest.

I didn’t know there was so much hate for The Big East. I mean, weren’t those better times for us? Something about its demise made College Hoops a little less interesting. A lot of great rivalries on the BBall court. Syracuse and UConn was a good one.