It's all about $, with all this realignment bull, so why isn't the Big East being vocal on behalf of one of their remaining Confrence stars? No tourney, means Hundreds of Thoudsands of dollars in lost (units) to the Big East. The only thing I've heard them say is, Uconn will be banned from the BET. Where is the conference support? It seems like we are on an island. Hopefully, politicians, lawyers, fans, judges, the Big East and the school start fighting for a fair outcome.
Those who run our conference are more concerned about receiving favorable (major conference) treatment once UConn, Louisville, etc. leave than they are anything else.
To me a bigger concern is this is the poster child of UConn Athletics and despite everything else otherwise, it will make it more difficult to join a desirable conference. The 'ACADEMIC" fracade that covers NCAA and College Prez greed is very real.
More importantly in my opinion.... where is the media attention on this? Who's sticking up for these kids? They're the ones really getting punished. I understand it's hard to argue against "academic" penalties.... but the penalties make no sense and punish the wrong party. You'd think the media would be on this. Not a peep. Hopefully one of the hoarde is working on something. Not sure it would do anything, but still.
I will say, in some respects I am more disappointed in the conference's acts than the NCAAs. We have done an awful lot for the Big East. I would expect more than the knee jerk reaction we got.
The Big East has offered up UConn as a sacrifice to the gods. It's won't help them any more than it helped the Aztecs.
Our conference mates will gladly stand upon our fallen body to boost themselves up, in the naive belief that one of them can easily become a national power.
Yup, they have adopted the Bundy Family Creedo, "when one of us is embarrassed, the others feel better about ourselves."
The majority are secretly excited to have a better chance at winning the BE tourney. Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk
The Big East is run by idiots, it doesn't shock me that they are kicking UConn while they are down. These are the same people that sat on their hands while our great conference got gutted instead of going out and being proactive to poach schools from other conferences. Untrained chimps could do a better job of running the Big East. I pray that the ACC still wants us and we jump ship.
Does anyone think the BET ban would have occurred if UCONN had expressed total bushido-like fealty to the BE after Pitt and SYR announced their intentions? I don't.
Yes, someone who agrees with me here. Instead of having our back, the Big East decided to stab it. Now I think they instituted this rule before this situation with UConn materialized, but maybe not. I don't have a problem with the rule and it's intention, but I would like to see the BE be proactive and quickly make a stand and grant UConn a waiver or whatever you would call it to be able to play in the BET in light of how unjust the NCAA penalty seems to be. If the BE backs this up, then that would appear that they don't think that this is an injustice and that UConn and it's players are getting what they deserve. Well screw them too! Still mad...
Personally I believe the biggest reason we were voted out of the BET is that there likely will be a handful of BE schools entering the MSG next March on the fence, needing a win to secure their bid. The BE doesn't need an auto bid and our winning the tournament (if we were to do so) won't cost the school that would have won without us there its bid. Our knocking off a last four in/first four out school in the opening round however would likely cost that school its bid. On the women's board (I am still angry with myself for browsing there) there is a thread where they are basically praising the athletes Geno recruits for being four year players primarily concerned with their degree while JC's recruits, with the exception of Emeka, never were student athletes (not my words). They conveniently left out the fact that there aren't any options for women that come close to the men leaving early for the NBA draft as even if the bulk of the players never have a legitimate shot at the NBA, that the shortened collegiate career as a springboard to NBA dollars exists gives male recruits an entirely different mindset. I had a brief discussion last fall with a St John's fan (on a BE board) after he spoke of how unified the catholic schools were to the conference and how much better the conference's future would be if the football members had the same commitment. After pointing out the fact that both Nova and Georgetown quietly contacted the ACC to see if there was any possibility of working out a membership agreement, I pointed out the reality that for marquette, St John's, PC, Seton Hall and Depaul, there aren't any better conference options and if there were, each of these schools would be openly lobbying for admission. Whatever loyalty any current BE school may claim to the conference is out of need, not choice and the bulk of the cachet that the conference holds over the past two decades was earned by us.
