Staff of New Conference

[jkc_dawgs]

Anybody know or have an idea of who would be at the top of the list for job titles like comish or prez?

[jsheim]

Not sure who you get for these type of jobs...are there professional league Executive types with Resumes floating around looking for jobs?...or do you get administrators from the schools to staff the board and top spots and then they hire the workers who run the place?

I imagine there are Big-East worker-bees who will be looking for a new job.

I just hope its more of a reboot with fresh talent and lots of school input. I know Madison Square Gardens and NY is the center of a lot of cash...but lets pull the thing down out of new-england a bit.

PS. Marquette fan here

[lukecu]

yea, I think it would be really cool if the tournament rotated sites. I get that there is a lot of history there and madison square garden me something but it would be great to move it around. Maybe NYC, Chicago (yes, i know its depauls hometown), Minneapolis, etc.

[QueRico]

A name being thrown about to be the commissioner - Greg Shaheen.
http://www.ibj.com/ncaa-faces-firestorm-after-replacing-shaheen/PARAMS/article/33796
He won't come cheap, but it appears the TV contract will certainly cover it.
He has all the experience & connections for the job.

[billyjack]

Fans of incoming teams will end up really liking the tourney in New York. You'll have a blast and want to make the annual trip.

With other cities, I'd like to see holiday tourneys in the Midwestern cities to kick off our early season league games. Maybe 4 teams each can go to alternating cities and play 3 games over the long weekend in a round robin.

[BE 7 Conference fan]

A name being thrown about to be the commissioner - Greg Shaheen.
http://www.ibj.com/ncaa-faces-firestorm-after-replacing-shaheen/PARAMS/article/33796
He won't come cheap, but it appears the TV contract will certainly cover it.
He has all the experience & connections for the job.

Shaheen would seemingly be a perfect hire. The national print and TV media love the guy. We'd get a tremendous buzz by this hiring.

Anybody know what he's doing now?

[whiteandblue77]

A name being thrown about to be the commissioner - Greg Shaheen.
http://www.ibj.com/ncaa-faces-firestorm-after-replacing-shaheen/PARAMS/article/33796
He won't come cheap, but it appears the TV contract will certainly cover it.
He has all the experience & connections for the job.

Shaheen would seemingly be a perfect hire. The national print and TV media love the guy. We'd get a tremendous buzz by this hiring.

Anybody know what he's doing now?

President of an investment firm, but he's all b-ball (and Big East) on twitter. Let's get this guy and get this DONE!

https://twitter.com/gashaheen

[Hoya]

Feinstein thinks they are targeting the AD from George Mason:

DeGioia has also targeted a potential commissioner: George Mason Athletic Director Tom O’Connor.

O’Connor is 66 and is in his 19th year at George Mason. He has one year left on his contract but has told friends he has no interest in retiring and has, in fact, been talking to the school about an extension. O’Connor would be a good fit for the new league because he is a basketball lifer: he coached at Dartmouth and Loyola-Maryland and was the AD at Loyola, Santa Clara and Saint Bonaventure before being hired at George Mason in 1994.

Two things in his background undoubtedly make him attractive to DeGioia: He was chairman of the NCAA tournament selection committee in 2007-2008, meaning he has a lot of contacts in the television world and has been involved in network negotiations in the past. He’s also Catholic, which probably is not a requirement but is a plus for a group dubbed the Catholic 7.

Not surprisingly, O’Connor didn’t want anyone labeling him a candidate this early in the process. “I’m not a candidate,” he said earlier this week. “As far as I know they aren’t even at a point where they’re identifying candidates — me or anyone else.”