Big East January '26 Thread

[uconnbaseball]

Those on this board that choose to wallow in misery because of UConn's conference affiliation are getting tedious. If rooting for a P4 school is that important to someone, BCU would welcome the fans.

The Big East does suck on the court, but playing name brands like Marquette and St. John's as opposed to Rice and UTSA is all Hurley needs to keep recruiting well. I'm loving the 2026 Big East.

BCU is worse than any team in our conference, to be fair.

 

[superjohn]

Did everyone b^^ch and moan constantly about the Big East being a disgrace in the late 90's to early 2000's when the league was a 13 team conference getting 4 and 5 teams in the tournament?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

It is objectively true that the bottom of the big east is much worse comapred to other power conferences than the top of the big east (1 ranked team total) is compared to those same power conferences.

I want to give you props. Of your 72 posts, almost all are about the Big East, and other than your name, you never post about UConn history, so it is unlikely you are actually a UConn fan. This board has been getting trolled for 20+ years, yet some of the longest term Boneyard posters have failed to spot you and are going along with your act. You have managed to derail thread after thread with your Big East bashing despite this season shaping up to be a great season on the court. This is impressive trolling.

Game recognizes game.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Did everyone b^^ch and moan constantly about the Big East being a disgrace in the late 90's to early 2000's when the league was a 13 team conference getting 4 and 5 teams in the tournament?

Most of my current concern comed from my feelings from that time frame when it appeared all catholic members of the conference at that time except Villanova appeared to be content letting UConn, Syracuse and occasionally another school or two do all of the heavy lifting.

 

[pepband99]

I want to give you props. Of your 72 posts, almost all are about the Big East, and other than your name, you never post about UConn history, so it is unlikely you are actually a UConn fan. This board has been getting trolled for 20+ years, yet some of the longest term Boneyard posters have failed to spot you and are going along with your act. You have managed to derail thread after thread with your Big East bashing despite this season shaping up to be a great season on the court. This is impressive trolling.

Game recognizes game.

Indeed. The undisputed master of thread derailing, usually with something that's borderline understandable, should know. All hail the troll king.

 

[BFieldHusky]

Updated 1/11 NET:

UConn (8)
St. Johns (26)
Villanova (29)
Seton Hall (39)
Creighton (47)
Butler (54)

 

[RashadRay11]

I want to give you props. Of your 72 posts, almost all are about the Big East, and other than your name, you never post about UConn history, so it is unlikely you are actually a UConn fan. This board has been getting trolled for 20+ years, yet some of the longest term Boneyard posters have failed to spot you and are going along with your act. You have managed to derail thread after thread with your Big East bashing despite this season shaping up to be a great season on the court. This is impressive trolling.

Game recognizes game.

Of my 72 posts, I average nearly 7 likes. Of your nearly 50k posts, you average negative likes. You hate UConn Val.

 

[auror]

Of my 72 posts, I average nearly 7 likes. Of your nearly 50 posts, you average negative likes. You hate UConn Val.

Might want to check your math on that one.

 

[RuffRuff]

Might want to check your math on that one.

Not sure it’s the math worth checking

 

[superjohn]

Most of my current concern comed from my feelings from that time frame when it appeared all catholic members of the conference at that time except Villanova appeared to be content letting UConn, Syracuse and occasionally another school or two do all of the heavy lifting.

Villanova had a losing record in conference from '97-98 to 2003-2004 with only one NCAA tournament and no wins.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Villanova had a losing record in conference from '97-98 to 2003-2004 with only one NCAA tournament and no wins.

They hired Jay Wright in 2001. That was enough to convince me they were trying.

Can't say that about almost everyone else (catholic contingent) back then. They let a couple schools do the work and were happy to share in the revenues

 

[Palatine]

Those on this board that choose to wallow in misery because of UConn's conference affiliation are getting tedious. If rooting for a P4 school is that important to someone, BCU would welcome the fans.

It's about the money. And money has a direct relationship to success in college sport. Figure it out.

 

[superjohn]

They hired Jay Wright in 2001. That was enough to convince me they were trying.

Can't say that about almost everyone else (catholic contingent) back then. They let a couple schools do the work and were happy to share in the revenues

This sure sounds like revisionist history. You don't think Seton Hall was trying when they hired Tommy Amaker? When he took them to the sweet 16 and then they followed it up with the #1 recruit, #9 recruit, #30 recruit all in the same class?

Of course they were trying. Of course teams in the conference right now are trying. The point is sometimes conferences have a bad year or a bad stretch of years. Everyone knows the Big East is down this season but they're still going to get 4 teams in the tournament and probably have the favorite to win the whole thing. I don't understand why we have the constant b^^^^ing and moaning here about it and pretending the conference is done. I highly doubt we had that back then, all I ever hear from the complainers is that the Big East was always amazing and now it sucks.

 

[Waquoit]

It's about the money. And money has a direct relationship to success in college sport. Figure it out.

You miss the point.

 

[bendm]

Val you only care about the big east, not about UConn. We get it.

If Nelson is Val who does that make you? John swofford?

 

[RashadRay11]

If Nelson is Val who does that make you? John swofford?

When have I praised the ACC fella? Nelson is Val, I am just a life-long UConn fan who will not bury my head in the sand about how bad our league is.

All I have ever argued for is to schedule like our women's team does, or like Gonzaga does. We need to ensure we have big time OOC games throughout the whole season, not just in the first month. Otherwise, our league does nothing but hold us back.

 

[Mr. Hand]

When have I praised the ACC fella? Nelson is Val, I am just a life-long UConn fan who will not bury my head in the sand about how bad our league is.

All I have ever argued for is to schedule like our women's team does, or like Gonzaga does. We need to ensure we have big time OOC games throughout the whole season, not just in the first month. Otherwise, our league does nothing but hold us back.

This is just further evidence that Boneyarders will complain about anything and everything.

 

[RuffRuff]

This sure sounds like revisionist history. You don't think Seton Hall was trying when they hired Tommy Amaker? When he took them to the sweet 16 and then they followed it up with the #1 recruit, #9 recruit, #30 recruit all in the same class?

Of course they were trying. Of course teams in the conference right now are trying. The point is sometimes conferences have a bad year or a bad stretch of years. Everyone knows the Big East is down this season but they're still going to get 4 teams in the tournament and probably have the favorite to win the whole thing. I don't understand why we have the constant b^^^^ing and moaning here about it and pretending the conference is done. I highly doubt we had that back then, all I ever hear from the complainers is that the Big East was always amazing and now it sucks.

You’re right in no point complaining, it is what it is.

I don’t think you can look at the 90s as a comparison between the ups and down. Much has changed that is unlikely to afford the variability.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Indeed. The undisputed master of thread derailing, usually with something that's borderline understandable, should know. All hail the troll king.

Are you saying it is my fault you are falling for the trolling?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

It's about the money. And money has a direct relationship to success in college sport. Figure it out.

Every aspect of the conference situation has been beaten to death, and then beaten to death, and then beaten to death some more. There is a whole board on this site dedicated to this topic if you want to beat it to death some more.

UConn is having an amazing season, and a big chunk of you morons are falling for one of the more obvious trolls to show up on the Boneyard. Look at his posting history. He doesn't know anything about UConn, he just trolls us on conference realignment, and he derails thread after thread until half this board is complaining about the Big East.

Stop feeding the troll.

 

[RashadRay11]

Every aspect of the conference situation has been beaten to death, and then beaten to death, and then beaten to death some more. There is a whole board on this site dedicated to this topic if you want to beat it to death some more.

UConn is having an amazing season, and a big chunk of you morons are falling for one of the more obvious trolls to show up on the Boneyard. Look at his posting history. He doesn't know anything about UConn, he just trolls us on conference realignment, and he derails thread after thread until half this board is complaining about the Big East.

Stop feeding the troll.

Brother, you are just incorrect. Everyone makes fun of you on this board.

 

[bendm]

When have I praised the ACC fella? Nelson is Val, I am just a life-long UConn fan who will not bury my head in the sand about how bad our league is.

All I have ever argued for is to schedule like our women's team does, or like Gonzaga does. We need to ensure we have big time OOC games throughout the whole season, not just in the first month. Otherwise, our league does nothing but hold us back.

We have the inside track to a 1 seed thanks to our OOC schedule, which was the best we’ve ever had, and Hurley said we’ll swap out another buy game for a big OOC going forward. BE is projected to get 5 bids and the WCC is projected to get 2. Imagine if St Mary’s was our biggest rival then you’d really have something to complain about.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Brother, you are just incorrect. Everyone makes fun of you on this board.

When your defense for not being a troll is to attack the poster pointing out you are a troll, you are admitting that you are a troll.

Edit: Also worth noting that despite 80%+ of his posts being about conference realignment, he never posts on the CR board. He is trying to derail threads on the main basketball board.

 

[RashadRay11]

When your defense for not being a troll is to attack the poster pointing out you are a troll, you are admitting that you are a troll.

You’ve called me a troll since my first post. If I was a troll why would I average 6 likes per post on a UConn message board? You average negative likes.

If I wasn’t a die-hard UConn fan why would my favorite players ever be Rashad Anderson and Ed Nelson?

If I wasn’t a UConn fan why would I post about how to get to the prudential center for the UConn Seton Hall game?

I have literally never seen you post a single positive thing about UConn, all you talk about is how great the big east supposedly is. You are Val Ackerman.

 

[RashadRay11]

We have the inside track to a 1 seed thanks to our OOC schedule, which was the best we’ve ever had, and Hurley said we’ll swap out another buy game for a big OOC going forward. BE is projected to get 5 bids and the WCC is projected to get 2. Imagine if St Mary’s was our biggest rival then you’d really have something to complain about

I just wish we had games to get really fired up for between December and March instead of constant bubble teams or cellar dwellars.

 

[bendm]

I just wish we had games to get really fired up for between December and March instead of constant bubble teams or cellar dwellars.

My condolences but if you weren’t fired up after the PC game and aren’t fired up for Hall on Tuesday or for SJU at MSG or against Nova or for the BET then that’s on you.

 

[RashadRay11]

My condolences but we heard you the first 20 times

Someone hasn’t had their morning coffee yet

 

[RashadRay11]

My condolences but if you weren’t fired up after the PC game and aren’t fired up for Hall on Tuesday then that’s on you.

I am looking forward to the Seton Hall game, that’s why I’m going. See you there!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You’ve called me a troll since my first post. If I was a troll why would I average 6 likes per post on a UConn message board? You average negative likes.

If I wasn’t a die-hard UConn fan why would my favorite players ever be Rashad Anderson and Ed Nelson?

If I wasn’t a UConn fan why would I post about how to get to the prudential center for the UConn Seton Hall game?

I have literally never seen you post a single positive thing about UConn, all you talk about is how great the big east supposedly is. You are Val Ackerman.

Boneyarders can skim your posts and reach their own conclusions.

 

[RashadRay11]

Boneyarders can skim your posts and reach their own conclusions.

They’ve already reached conclusion on you that you’re not to be taken seriously, like a drunk uncle conspiracy theorist on thanksgiving.