Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, who helped lead the conference’s recent expansion, said league members were in complete agreement with the changes.
“We certainly could have confronted in this moment an opportunity to break up the conference, and we emphatically made the decision to keep it together. We had a full consensus that the best thing for our basketball programs would be to remain in complete alignment with the football programs,” he said. “I would be surprised to hear that any of our non-football-playing members would report contemplating separation.”
Well, if history has taught us anything, Georgetown is one of the two. Everyone who has had a turn as head of the table has pleaded ignorance then bolted shortly thereafter.
John M. Marinatto, the Big East’s commissioner, said the league had long encouraged its basketball athletic directors to meet separately from the football AD’s and to discuss any concerns they may have with proposed changes. “Although they’ve had discussions, I’ve had no indication from any of them that they have serious desires to break away,” he said.
But he told me it’s hard to know who to trust anymore in the realignment shuffle. “People don’t always tell you the truth. It’s obviously hard to say that and hear that, but it’s something we’ve all learned as we go through this realignment.”
Well isn't that special. John was elevated to level of conference commissioner before he realized that some people in an organization are less than forthright and that duplicity isn't just a word in the dictionary.
