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Bye Bye AAC

TRest said:
We didn't leave the BE, those schools left us. Bizarre that people still think this.
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Someone gave me crap in another thread for using the NBE acronym. This is why I do it. Nobody should ever forget what happened to us.
 
The C7 where instrumental in blowing up the Old Big East. In fact their objective was to blow it up and distribute the assets to each member . A clause in the charter prevented that without the consent of UConn, USF, and Cinncy. All of whom would have been broke and homeless . Those teams got the bulk of the $75,000,000.
 
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superjohn said:
The new Big East is the same as the old Big East, it's the original schools with a few added schools. Same as it always was and same thing as the other major conferences.
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Not at all the same conference from our glory days of the 90s and 2000s. Half (5/10) of the current conference weren’t around back then.

The New Big East, however, is a top 3 basketball conference and right where we belong.

You like to be mister literal around here, so let’s keep the facts straight.
 
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The Big East = "Old Big East" 9 minus [Cuse Pitt BC] plus [Marquette Xavier Creighton Butler DePaul]

6 of the 11 members are from the "Old Big East"
8 of the 11 members were members before the "Great CR".

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There will never be an OBE
It was the finest basketball conference and UConn was a major force and near or at the top of most accomplishments
This NBE is formidable but none of these teams would finish in the top half of the OBE
 
glastonbury50 said:
I wouldn't say that each year got progressively worse in the AAC. This year in the conference has been a major upswing compared to the last 3. Also love the Raw passion from OP, but this is an extremely uninformed post.
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it's a borderline 1 bid league. how is it on a major upswing?
 
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Sort of related.

The AAC offices are still in Providence, correct? Which doesn't really make sense considering the location of all the schools. It makes even less sense with UCONN leaving. They probably should move their office to TX or something.
 
NDakotaHusky said:
Sort of related.

The AAC offices are still in Providence, correct? Which doesn't really make sense considering the location of all the schools. It makes even less sense with UCONN leaving. They probably should move their office to TX or something.
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www.dallasnews.com

American Athletic Conference looking forward to benefits of moving headquarters to Dallas

Las Colinas will likely have another college sports tenant in 2020.The American Athletic Conference will move its headquarters from Providence,...
www.dallasnews.com
 
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Zissou said:
Hey Rip Van Winkle, Nova won the National Championship in '16 and '18.
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yeah and your point is?
You think that the competition in 2016 and 2018 was the same as the hay day of the OBE? And maybe Nova could have in those years (I have doubts based on the size and physical play in the OBE) but nobody else.
Jay Wright would be the 1st to admit that
 
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navery12 said:
The original post was not in reference to UConn's play, it was the conference in general
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right. i can see now that he was referring to uconn in the post, but i assumed he meant the conference as a whole upon first reading
 
gtcam said:
yeah and your point is?
You think that the competition in 2016 and 2017 was the same as the hay day of the OBE? And maybe Nova could have in those years (I have doubts based on the size and physical play in the OBE) but nobody else.
Snark
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nova won every single game in the 2018 tournament by atleast double digits and beat oklahoma by 44 in the final 4 in 2016. they would've been fine

although i'd agree the league wasn't as strong in those years as some of the behemoth big east years, it was still a 5 bid and 6 bid league
 
scoscox said:
right. i can see now that he was referring to uconn in the post, but i assumed he meant the conference as a whole upon first reading
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No I think you were right and he was referring to the conference as a whole
 
I will be changing my screen name to Big East Forever! We are not leaving this conference again. Over the last ten years, nine of ten NCAA champions have come from the Big East and ACC (Look it up). I include UCONN's 2014 win despite being in in the AAC because we should have never left the Big East.

Not debating if we left or they left, at the end of the day, our conference says AAC not Big East, but that era is now over. Good riddance! Change the current logo for Jonathan back to the Big East era logo and let this nightmare go quietly into the night.

Tulane looked like a high school arena today, sparsely populated and fans paid to attend. We will not see that with the lowest school in the Big East.

Season is over now! Bye Bye AAC!!!!!
 
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gtcam said:
yeah and your point is?
You think that the competition in 2016 and 2018 was the same as the hay day of the OBE? And maybe Nova could have in those years (I have doubts based on the size and physical play in the OBE) but nobody else.
Jay Wright would be the 1st to admit that
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Nova had 4 nba players on that last title team and they romped on their way to a national title. If your point is college basketball as a whole was better in the 80's, well no s*** Sherlock.
 
navery12 said:
The original post was not in reference to UConn's play, it was the conference in general
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Maybe he didn't intend to. But the grammar used by all means Indicates he was referring to UConn.
 
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