What should new conference name be?

[ljay]

All the big "directions" are gone except Big North.

[admin]

All the big "directions" are gone except Big North.

Bigger isn't always better. Instead of Big East, how about Better East

[courtjester]

How about North Star Conference?

[novajoe]

The All Catholic Conference, ACC for short, or if some other colleges don't like it, the All Catholic League, or ACL, and then when a school leaves the headline would read THE ACL IS TORN.

They will keep the Big East....It's important for FB...but in BB it has great value. I think we will negotiate this in our favor

[HallHoops]

How about the Greater Metro Athletic Conference, the GMAC for short?

[courtjester]

GMAC is already taken.

http://g-macsports.com/

[jkc_dawgs]

Eastern 10...or 12

[thefish7]

If they end up with all private schools, you could go with something like The Private League. A little pretentious I suppose, but that might be what the schools are looking for anyway.

[realchiliwarrior]

most Catholic schools, especially Jesuit schools, have names that don't suggest a Catholic identity at all. if you know your Jesuit saints, then you might know that Gonzaga and Xavier are named for a couple of them. Notre Dame is named for Jesus's mom, if you know French. otherwise, you've mostly got names of cities and of people: Creighton, St Louis, Marquette, Dayton, etc.

I wouldn't expect the conference's name to have any particular Catholic associations. how about Midwest Atlantic Conference? or Atlantic Midwest, if you don't like MAC...

BTW... Notre Dame and Dayton are not Jesuit

The complete list of 28 Jesuit institutions available at http://www.ajcunet.edu/Member-Institutions

[BillikenRich]

All the big "directions" are gone except Big North.

Bigger isn't always better. Instead of Big East, how about Better East

Big East if available, if not how about The B-East.....drop the a and you've got "The Best."

The B-EST conference. It's ballsy but it's good!