Big East needs to be better. Twice now in 3 years there has only been 3 NCAAT bids. That costs the conference millions and millions in badly needed revenue and Val needs to take this extremely seriously.
A few areas to focus.....
1) Schools need to spend money on players
Can't have 40% of the league spending $4-6 Million on players when P4 average is $8.5M. They have the ability to spend whatever they want in Revenue Sharing, take advantage of not having football and leverage the 1 advantage you have. There should be a spending floor every year and the league needs to give better guidance to schools on what will be needed every Portal season.
2) Schools need to capitalize on the Conference to pool resources and negotiate as a group
Instead of every school hiring teams of people to raise revenues from corporations, attendance, etc., the Conference should hire a team to provide these services for member schools. Making group deals with corporate sponsors should be easier and save money.
Rather than every school trying to figure out how to monetize their OOC schedule AND find good opponents, the BE should hire consultants with expertise in this and who can make group deals. Don't PAY money to play in outdated MTEs. Create your own events or partner with others to put on MTEs that create revenue for our schools. Organize a Conference vs Conference Challenge. If the P4 doesn't want to do that, make a deal with the top 11 non-P4 schools on a multi-year scheduling agreement.
3) Bring coaches together to talk about how to improve offense
Offense is improving in Division 1 every year but too many Big East teams play terrible offense. Not 1 BE school is in the top 25 in KenPom Offensive Efficiency this year. Last year only 1 team was top 25. Overall Pace of Play numbers are even worse. This style of play hurts in OOC play and it brings down the conference's efficiency metrics and NET. Too many BE games are old-school, slow-paced, physical battles.
