not a big deal, the Big East used to exclude the bottom 4.
I remember the day we got passed over for the ACC, and then yet again, and again… thought it might be the end of the good old days.
fun narrative.
16 school Big East was epic.
if you want to maximize a potential career in basketball you play at the highest possible competitive level commensurate with your skill.
Even now, if you want to further your career as a basketball player you don’t choose BC.
Father Leahy already on the phone with the Athletic Dept to cut their travel budget next year
Then they need to perform to earn it.
When they have the tournament in Greensboro, does it make a sound?
For us boomers watching the once mighty Cuse get all giddy over beating another team in the regular season conference play - so much so that they storm the court? well it was a defining moment of how the once mighty have fallen into the middling D 1 programs. And the ACC football that was supposed to be so great? Teetering with departure of Florida State.
I guess you missed when we stormed the court just a few short years ago after a win? Four ACC teams in the final football Top 25 is not "teetering". What is teetering is our entire football program stuck in a wasteland of independence, while you gloat about championships in a sport that doesn't move the needle in the college conference power game and generates measly funding for the rest of the athletic department. You're going to gloat about conference network viewership compared to a conference that doesn't even have a conference network? Big East is a nice layaway spot on the way to a better destination.
Have you seen some of the ratings for New Big East basketball on FS1. Games on FS2 usually have more people in the seats than watching. And you know the NEWBIE tournament typically finished behind the P5 conferences and one or 2 mid-majors, right? Last year the Noob final was behind the P5, the AAC, the A10 and the WAC. There is some saying about glass houses and throwing stones
Agreed 1000000% The OBE was a great conference in the later years when considering football, soccer and baseball also. The NBE is a shell of what the BE used to be. UConn needs to get out and into a P5 asap. At least there will be no need for CBSSN.............................
Careful about dissing Syracuse fans for rushing the court. Didn’t we rush the court when we beat Villanova in the game Hurley get tossed?
Point taken but then again, we were in the AAC for a stretch that was like purgatory. Syracuse and others went to the mighty ACC and now look at them.
