Quote Originally Posted by MKE_GoldenEagleFan View Post
Money... More teams in the tournament = more NCAA tournament credits... NCAA tournament money is very important for this league and will help them keep up with the big boys in recruiting and such. The more teams you have in, the more credits you can potentially earn.
As I said, this current BE will NEVER EVER be equal with the big boys. It just simply won't. It was in the old Big east. You see it in fan support...for some schools like Creighton, Butler etc, these were HUGE steps up for their programs, so the fans love it etc. For MU, it has been a HUGE step down. To see it otherwise is simply being blind. I'd argue that there has been no school more negatively impacted by this conference change than MU. When you consider where they were a few years ago, and where they are now...which school in the conference has taken a bigger step back?? Answer is NO one. It's helped almost every team(DePaul is Depaul) but MU it has damaged their overall product. They may never recover from it, at least not to the level they had been at.