Alumni Hall games

Just put the Villinova game on. Their on campus arena looks packed. Sr. Joe's isn't very good this year but they are good local team. Instead of playing NJIT, St. Mary's, and Long Beach St. We could play Fordham, Iona, and Hofstra. It would make these games so much more fun and we would get better crowds.
St. John's make such bad decisions while making their schedules. Why are we playing Fordham in at MSG? Tulane in Brooklyn? WHY

When St. John's was playing NJIT, Villanova was playing Maryland Eastern Shore. Everyone has tune up games. Additionally St. John's played local LIU and it didn't bump any attendance. No students from Manhattan, Hofstra, St. Francis, Fordham really cares about their own teams let alone when they play SJU. 
I understand where you're coming from but it sounds better in theory. 

Fordham plays in the best conference out of all the locals. So we should play them. As far as the others, we have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Anyone who can't grasp that is coming from a biased MAAC high school league standpoint.

Also Nova/St. Joe's is part of the BIG 5 tradition of Philly that ha been happening much longer that the Big East.  At one time they played all such games as double headers at the Palestra--one of my all favorite arenas.  We had something similar in NYC which was a hard double header ticket to get at the old Garden.  You had SJU, MC, FU, NYU as the top 4 which made for great rivalry games every year. I think that NYU's dropping Division 1 sports and FU's non scholarship venture killed the competiveness broke this NYC phenomena.