Long Beach State Sports : Re: Scheduling alliance with the WCC

The WCC is more than Gonzaga. St Mary's often gets into the Big Dance and this year Santa Clara is playing very well. Teams the BW matches up well with include Pepperdine, LMU, San Diego, Portland, Seattle and UOP.

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It makes too much sense. Back when ESPN was looking for that late night game, the Big West filled it. This would allow them to fill a late night spot in the early season as well, with some West Coast marketing lean.

The AD's and coaches would rather have 2-3 guaranteed D2 or below games every year.

I would never play a D2 game during the year. I would maybe play one NAIA/D2 game as a preseason exhibition, then everything else is D1.

There is a bit of CYA going on here. IF one conference dominated the other, the Commish would look pretty bad. Also if the conferences start talking more, then they can get friendly and make contacts to poach more easily. It will happen anyways, but if they appear to have invited it, the responsibility would fall on them.

Without Gonzaga, we really are in the same boat now.

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it certainly will make our scheduling easier with better home opponents.

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The BWC should get on board with this.

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Commish of WCC trying with no success so far to get BW and WCC in a alliance to play each other pre-season.

“I have tried (to create a scheduling alliance in the West). There doesn’t seem to be an appetite currently for any scheduling alliance among the Western Conferences. I am speaking about the Big West, Mountain West and Pac-12. I get it, the Pac-12 has bigger fish to fry. They are trying to launch a conference. This is the first year of their new basketball conference. Entertaining the idea of a scheduling alliance does not make a lot of sense. That being said, the other conferences out West, we have not been able to align ourselves in any scheduling alliance. We’ve tried to take a leadership role in that area without success.”