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  1. champs99and04

    Why The Selection Committee is a Joke

    Providence, Seton Hall, and St. John's (at least until the last couple weeks) were all mediocre teams that were left out in favor of other mediocre teams that had more political sway. Everyone brings up Virginia and MSU, but the real tell might've been Northwestern. The committee helped skate...
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    UMass > MAC for all sports in 2025-2026

    This might get marketed as a pro-football move, but it's really just an admission that the basketball program has no remaining value. I know there's some optimism there now with Frank Martin, but the A-10 is a shell of its former self and they must know it's only going to get worse as the power...
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    Court stormings

    If anyone was on the fence about how to feel, Duke's collective response to the matter should make it easy. This has been a masterclass in living up to stereotypes.
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    Court stormings

    If you want to make the case against court stormings, Duke's big man spraining his ankle is not it. The possibility of a serious injury or a fight breaking out might get me to ban it, but Scheyer whining about it after he designed a play for his seven footer to be as far away from the tunnel as...
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    Week of 2/19 Other Games

    So glad I tuned in for the last few minutes. Not sure I've ever seen a go-ahead four point play in the final 30 seconds like that. Washington State was a 13.5-point dog, too.
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    Kevin Ollie to be Nets Interim Head Coach

    Ollie's legacy here is a complicated one that certainly leaves room for some bitterness, resentment, and feelings of betrayal. What I've never understood are those who take it farther than that. People are going to disappoint you sometimes. That's life. If Dan Hurley stops recruiting...
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    Holtmann to DePaul?

    I don't know, but it doesn't really change anything about the rest of my post. The program is not going to be competitive with a guy like Holtmann unless the changes start at the top. Perhaps his interest signifies that he expects that to happen, but I'll believe it when I see it. Neither the...
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    Holtmann to DePaul?

    Dan Hurley? Of course not. But he was at a different stage of his career, having already established himself as one of the best young coaches in the country. I'd agree it's pretty unlikely they find someone who meets my criteria. Maybe a Bruce Pearl type of guy, but I doubt his job is in any...
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    Holtmann to DePaul?

    By fail, I mean fail spectacularly. In other words, I think you need to have a big enough personality to absorb being a punchline for a while (because it's better than being irrelevant). Say what you want about Cooley, but he's leaned that role much like Hurley did when he took the UConn job...
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    Holtmann to DePaul?

    Holtmann is a solid coach, but he is not what DePaul needs. That program needs somebody with a dynamic personality, who has some name recognition/experience with major re-builds, and maybe above all, is willing to fail. There is a reason that program has been as bad as it's been for so long...
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    Kevin Ollie to be Nets Interim Head Coach

    Sounds like they did him a big favor doing this when they did. Schedule gets much easier the remainder of the season, so hopefully they'll perform well enough to at least get him another assistant job if not the head position.
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    OT: The Future of FOX and The Big East

    Playing second fiddle on ESPN is the single worst place to be - just ask hockey fans. You'll be immediate filler content, crammed into the worst imaginable timeslots with the lowest possible production value just like you were in the AAC. I'm the type of dinosaur who will die in front of the...
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    Pitino Pissed

    Nah. If he were trying to do that, he'd have called them "soft" or "lazy" or some other word coaches use when they're speaking to their team through the media. This was more something you'd expect to hear off the record, maybe at a bar after a couple drinks. I'm not sure I've heard a coach...
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    James Bouknight Released

    It's hardly a given in 2024 that someone who washes out of the NBA goes onto have success in Europe. It's a much different game over there, and Bouk doesn't really strike me as a guy who'd excel in that type of setting. Maybe he goes to China, but does he want to? Too bad he doesn't have...
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    St. John’s Pregame Thoughts

    Yes. I think he picked up both techs on the same play. Bad case of hero ball officiating.
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    St. John’s Pregame Thoughts

    I didn't realize you could simply be summoned like this. I was worried you had died.
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    St. John’s Pregame Thoughts

    This is closer to a vintage Pitino team than I think people might realize given that it's his first season. That doesn't mean they're great, but the portal can work wonders for a guy who's probably better at recruiting to a system than developing. Hurley's teams should be better equipped to...
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    Twitter and Big East Films

    I don't think he did anything wrong, either, but reading between the lines, it seems like Goodman's implying otherwise. Who else could he be referring to when he claims to be defending "someone caught up in it?" At first I thought it might be Cooley, but the more I think about it the less...
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    Downfall of Goodman

    I don't think he's a tool. He's the most talented person on Big East Twitter, and and should have been hired by the league a while ago (you can kiss that goodbye now). That said, the last 15-20 minutes of that documentary should not have seen the light of day, and he may wind up being the...
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    Twitter and Big East Films

    I'm not too familiar with the Field of 68, but if Cooley is upset enough about it, Fanta is really the only person Fox or the Big East would have the power to punish. Again, I don't think it's likely, especially seeing as Fanta seems to have a good relationship with Cooley. He doesn't say...
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    Twitter and Big East Films

    It started as a fun internet thing. Then Portnoy called it to the attention of his 3 million followers and now all bets are off. The Big East should probably swipe the video now before many more people watch.
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    Providence Scouting Report

    Solid summary. Saturday's win might have been the Super Bowl for the fan base, but I think the players are more relieved than anything that it's over. Since I've seen this team I fair bit, I'll add some general observations and player commentary: - I don't think this team was ever as good as...
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    Twitter and Big East Films

    My guess is Fanta approached this like any normal person and was supportive of a popular BE Twitter account making a film. Also like most people, he probably didn't have time to watch it and gave his OK based on the assumption it wouldn't compare Cooley to Hitler and recklessly speculate about...
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    Nova's next coach?

    I think it was a combination of the changing CBB landscape (portal, NIL, etc.), UConn coming back to the conference, and just wanting to retire while he was still relatively young. In the event that UConn leaves the Big East, I would not be shocked to see him take back his old job.
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    Providence

    At least from afar, it seems like he's turned into a completely different guy over the last 365 days. He never said things like this at Providence. I won't try to psychoanalyze the guy, but there's clearly a lot of to unpack here.
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    FSU looking to leave the ACC

    While that does seem to be the trend, eventually you run out of brands - at which point markets do start to matter again. And as the sport's largest fan bases are congregated into two or three leagues, someone's going to strike oil by building the brand through local talent. We've seen it to...
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    ESPN contract with ACC only guaranteed until 2027

    Not saying you're wrong, but that all sounds a bit too convenient. We've all been led to believe FSU's obligation to the ACC ran through 2036 - so either everyone's been misrepresenting this contract for years, or FSU's going to walk nine years early on a technicality. Neither scenario seems...
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    The 50 most-watched games of the 2023 college football regular season

    I didn't know you were that old! Would have guessed maybe the 70s or 80s was when you grew up.
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    FSU looking to leave the ACC

    It would be a weird concoction of schools, for sure - basically a hybrid of the original ACC, Big East, and Conference USA (oh and Stanford/Cal). The question is, who takes over the wheel assuming the aforementioned schools depart, and what do they prioritize? Between Wake, Duke, Stanford...
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    FSU looking to leave the ACC

    The ACC has given no indication that it plans to ever invite UConn, no matter how many defections it may absorb. The league has serious buyer's remorse over many of the Big East schools it's added at UConn's expense, and logically or not, will hold that against UConn in the future.
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    20 Years: 5-16 in Conference Openers

    What's really remarkable is how they've lost every type of game in every possible way. You have disheartening rivalry losses (BC in '05, Providence in '22), inexplicable duds turned in by great teams (Marquette in '06, Georgetown in '09, Houston in '14, maybe last night), games that set the...
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    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    It'd definitely seem like the better fit based on what the league has traditionally valued, but then again I can't pretend to know what the hell it values after its raid of the PAC-12. Maybe it continues its football-first approach and nabs some combination of FSU, Clemson, and Miami. Maybe it...
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    The 50 most-watched games of the 2023 college football regular season

    Georgia-Alabama - 17.52 million Louisville-FSU - 7.03 million Guess which league got into the playoff?
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    Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

    While I see you're point, at some point the SEC has to realize that not everyone in that league can succeed in football. Virginia and UNC would give them a major presence in critical recruiting markets and potentially add a lot of $ in basketball. I wouldn't even be shocked if they took Duke...
  35. champs99and04

    Cam Spencer and Thoughts on the Portal

    It's worth remembering that Cam presumably would have been considered a grad transfer, which have been afforded immediate eligibility for a decade or more. The first grad transfer I can remember UConn taking was R.J. Evans prior to the '12-'13 season, who was followed by several more high...
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