50 plus years. They built a brand by getting the auto bid every year by winning a bad conference. To their credit they turned those bids into NCAA tournament wins and started scheduling big time non-conference games. But make no mistake about it, this is GU's league and they fit in. They just happened to build an incredible brand of basketball based on a lot of circumstances not relevant to us.

We don't belong. We are too big. We have football. We have a huge fanbase. We stick out like a sore thumb.

What would happen if Notre Dame all the sudden dropped into the MWC? You think their fans would be grateful they found a landing spot? Do you think recruiting wouldn't suffer?

Come on, lets be real. The WCC does our entire program and image zero favors. They simply took in a program that shot itself in the foot by declaring Independence in football. Both programs have regressed ever since.