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Who is saying otherwise? We both agree. They definitely were betting on the branding helping them out. My disagreement with you lies on whether on year-1/2 anyone out there bought this "Big East 2.0 is just as good as the old one". Everyone knew it was B.S. The league had to prove it in the...

You must have short memory. Doesn't surprise me. People tend to forget quickly and conveniently move-on. But if you transport yourself back to 2014 the landscape was vastly different... Keep in mind that the Big East 2.0 lacked the elite programs of UCONN, SYRACUSE, WEST VIRGINIA, LOUISVILLE...

The conference has notably regressed since 2020 in its production of NCAA bids and in the conference rankins. But in the key formative first 5 year period (2014-18) the league did a great job sending over half of its team to the NCAAs. For some reason that decline in the league coincides with...

Great write up. It seems like people quickly forget how bad in shape the Big East 2.0 was. How everyone wanted it to die. How no one took the league seriously the first year. The way it disappeared from Mainstream television and was burried in an upstart FS1 network with low subscribers count...

Do you understand that no one saw Big East 2.0 as connected to the original Big East back in 2014? No one thought the new Big East had any relation to UConn. UConn and all the powers had left. It was a conference left for dead. The Big East Tournament wasn't even taken serious back in 2014 and...

@Hoophound What? Those are coaches that have their own respective jobs. I don't get your point. Jim Calhoun and Kevin Ollie never even coached in the re-chartered Big East. So your point makes no sense and I made no mention of them. She does deserve due credit for the critical years of...

Thank you Val for recreating a legendary conference from the ground-up again when everyone left it for dead. Absolutely everyone back then thought and hoped the Big East 2.0 experiment with an up-start Fox Sport 1/2 networks, and lacking big-time football was doomed for failure. It was expected...

I accept this reality. 3rd/4th/5th best league is still powerful enough to produce great programs that can win national championships. So, unless Connecticut gets invited to a Football-4 league (which would be great obv.) we remain in the best position we can possibly be at the moment

When its all said and done... the Big East will probably be the fourth of fifth best league in the country next year. Where it has been the past few years. Nothing has changed.

I'm Dominican (from the island). I'll tell you that a lot of Dominican parents have this urge to make up names. Esp the past few decades when people moved away from using almanacs / bible for naming. Its become too common now in our community to combine names, to make up a random one, or the...

Had issues accessing a few mins ago. But its back!

Had a great time at Legends. Packed to the brim. looking forward to monday night. I think UConn got this!

I'll be with my wife at Legends - NYC

The amount of hate Danny Hurley receives all over the Social Media world is inexplicable. So much hate. Way before this E8 game. Its absolutely crazy. It feels like nowadays the average person has no respect for greatness and for those that excel in their craft. (I see the same hatred for...

I get from the responses to my comments above that all the players from 2024 have move on. But there is no way that the coaching staff and the fan base doesn't have at the very least some trauma from this game. This will in the back of their minds all game. It has to. I sure as hell wouldn't...