ACC/Catholic 7 challenge?

[CL82]

Connecticut is conspiculously missing from this David Steele Sporting News article replete with revisionist history. Pitt is the "original core of the Big East?" What about before 1982, imbecile?

Look I don't mind this premise, much, but at least a throwaway reference to Connecticut would seem necessary. I am concerned that our Big East success is going to be "thrown down the memory hole" of the media, in favor of a new narrative. That's scary becuase over time it will impact out ability to leave.

 

[Kitaman]

Well no one can take our RECENT Championships away.

 

[bobbygt]

Many of the great ones were never appreciated during their lifetime.

If you are going to rely on the msm (espn, et al.) to define history, you will be disappointed and aggravated.

Uconn fans (and I should say that the sane fans of Pitt, Syracuse, Georgetown, Villanova, St. Johns, and so on) know where Uconn stands in big east history- at the top.

 

[stillinstorrs]

even though our pre-Calhoun Big East history gets entirely dismissed, I certainly remember the triple-OT game in '81 at Syracuse, the
excitement of the St.John's '82 BET game in Hartford (Chris Mullen jumper) and the scare we gave Nova in the first-ever BET in MSG in '83.

 

[UConn990411]

I hope this ACC-Catholic 7 challenge happens, and they agree to play the games on a boat.

That way, we can sink all the boats.

 

[RS9999X]

Going by today's Jerry Palm there is no challenge. The new-ACC has 8 teams in the bracket. The BiG has 7. The C-12 has 7.

The NNNBE will have 4 counting CT putting it behind the B12, PAc-12 and MWC (and the SEC if Kentucky was healthy).

8th Best. The memories of Calhoun and Huggins. Calipari at Memphis and Chaney at Temple. NEw coaches under fire and haunted by the ghosts of past success.

Then there's the rumors of selling the BE name to the C-12 in return for a clean break after next year. No lawsuits. USF, UConn, Cincy and Aresco split all the loot from exiting teams and NCAA distributions.

 

[upstater]

Going by today's Jerry Palm there is no challenge. The new-ACC has 8 teams in the bracket. The BiG has 7. The C-12 has 7.

The NNNBE will have 4 counting CT putting it behind the B12, PAc-12 and MWC (and the SEC if Kentucky was healthy).

8th Best. The memories of Calhoun and Huggins. Calipari at Memphis and Chaney at Temple. NEw coaches under fire and haunted by the ghosts of past success.

Then there's the rumors of selling the BE name to the C-12 in return for a clean break after next year. No lawsuits. USF, UConn, Cincy and Aresco split all the loot from exiting teams and NCAA distributions.

You can't aggregate bids from a variety of leagues based on future admissions. It doesn't work that way. In every conference, someone has to win, someone has to lose.

This would be like someone announcing that the top team in America East, the MAAC, the Patriot League, Southland, SWAC, etc., is leaving to join a Super League in which 8 of the 10 teams have bids to the tourney, the largest % of all conferences.

 

[RS9999X]

You can't aggregate bids from a variety of leagues based on future admissions. It doesn't work that way. In every conference, someone has to win, someone has to lose.
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Admit it: It's a Great Conference. Just get that denial out of your system.

 

[champs99and04]

As mainly a hoops fan, I kind of wish we didn't have football so we could join the Cathloic league.

 

[upstater]

Admit it: It's a Great Conference. Just get that denial out of your system.

Did you read the G'town link from the Hoya fans I provided the other day? They are fearful of G'town hoops sinking to a bad level in their new digs, and they are begging for the C7 to invite Memphis and Temple.