C7 to get BE Name

[FriarJ]

Providence College SAT
25%/75%
1040/1260
Acceptance rate 62%

UConn SAT
1130/1310
Acceptance rate 47% (40% for 2012)

After trying to find something-anything-that Providence College is better at, I'm out of ideas.

Hockey and Cross Country, and location. I'm sure there are more but I'm not into playing this game right now.

In regards to acceptance rate. There is a big difference on who can afford what school. PC is unbelievably in the $50k club now. I'd be curious to see UConn's out of state acceptance rate. Anyway not try to get into a pissing contest. UConn is a great school, so is PC.

 

[ScottVib]

What is a BE tournament credit? Did you mean NCAA credits?

Yes I thought the NCAA portion would be assumed. I am referring to the NCAA Tournament Credits belonging to the Big East (Big East tournament credits).

 

[FriarJ]

"PC may have done many terrible things to your school over the years but they did not force you to chase the almighty football $" what does this mean to you? why was it said if you are not implying it was a reason the big east is where it is today?

Mr. Special, what I'm implying is that UConn is in the place they are today because of football. UConn is down the list a long ways on blame for the demise of the whole conference. Capiche?

 

[FriarJ]

Yes I thought the NCAA portion would be assumed. I am referring to the NCAA Tournament Credits belonging to the Big East (Big East tournament credits).

gotcha, I can see what you meant now just the way I read it it came across differently.

 

[FriarJ]

since they have football now, they do have a better shot then prov fwiw...

and an equal shot to UConn.

 

[Dann]

and an equal shot to UConn.

good one

zinger alert

 

[TRest]

I do, and I also know what begging, grovelling, and prostituting myself looks like.

This isn't confession.

 

[ctchamps]

Hockey and Cross Country, and location. I'm sure there are more but I'm not into playing this game right now.

In regards to acceptance rate. There is a big difference on who can afford what school. PC is unbelievably in the $50k club now. I'd be curious to see UConn's out of state acceptance rate. Anyway not try to get into a pissing contest. UConn is a great school, so is PC.

Look dude, personally I think you're a decent poster and not a flamer like sean84 or whatever year he graduated kindergarten. But these are raw times for lots of people who are left with this mess. In Coming here you have to expect to take hits even at the best of times. So my advice is to be a big person and let our insults roll off your shoulders or wait for things to settle down. Unless you like to be insulted which is what you are getting. But that's not the type of person I think you are.

 

[Dann]

Look dude, personally I think you're a decent poster and not a flamer like sean84 or whatever year he graduated kindergarten. But these are raw times for lots of people who are left with this mess. In Coming here you have to expect to take hits even at the best of times. So my advice is to be a big person and let our insults roll off your shoulders or wait for things to settle down. Unless you like to be insulted which is what you are getting. But that's not the type of person I think you are.

graduate? he must have s'd the teaches d for that....

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Who gives a s*** what we call our league? And why would the league's name have anything to do with the autobid? The NCAA has pretty simple rules for an autobid, and the C7 meet them while the NNBE does not. The NCAA may choose to make an exception (I would say it's even money), but it would have nothing to do with the name or what happens to the C7.

 

[Vuce]

I sort of agree on the name thing. I mean use it as a bargaining chip but make no mistake about it, without Uconn and Syracuse the Big East is not the Big East.

 

[upstater]

I was hoping for a name change to Big East West.

 

[Dann]

we should name it just "B!G"

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Hockey and Cross Country, and location. I'm sure there are more but I'm not into playing this game right now.

In regards to acceptance rate. There is a big difference on who can afford what school. PC is unbelievably in the $50k club now. I'd be curious to see UConn's out of state acceptance rate. Anyway not try to get into a pissing contest. UConn is a great school, so is PC.

1. You couldn't pay me to go to school in the neighborhood of Providence where PC is located.

2. Up until your March HET run last year, PC hockey is nothing to boast about for a LONG time.

3. Acceptance rate is not a statistic that is affected by the cost of tuition. That statistic would be percentage of student accepted who choose to attend.

 

[Huskieforlife]

I do, and I also know what begging, grovelling, and prostituting myself looks like.

Cause you do it yourself?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Vuce,

You started it. And yes we have sucked for the better part of the last 10+ years with even only a modicum of success in the BE before that.

We need a fresh start and we are apparently getting one. Also getting a fresh new practice facility for men's hoops, just like you guys.

You give yourself too much credit. You've sucked for most of the last 40 years. Which technically is covered by 10+, but 10+ really doesn't give an accurate representation of your sucktitude.

 

[ctchamps]

we should name it just "B!G"

I would love this. I would love to keep the BE name just because I'm optimistic about UConn's future in bb and football and I want to rack up the BE wins at the expense of those who left. Maybe its petty thinking but why not. But B!G could win me over.

 

[RedStickHusky]

I was hoping for a name change to Big East West.

Or West-East B!G (WEB) - Cross-division games could be interwebs.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Big Pope Conference deserves only what it negotiated and paid for. So if you want the name, pay up.

Unlike the boutique athletic programs of the Big Pope Conference, UConn and other athletic departments of the Big East decided to be more than just a basketball team with a school built around it.

 

[ZooCougar]

I think because you can't petition until after it indeed does happen, then I think the assurances part he referenced is what they would need to pull the trigger on this.

Anyway the FB schools need a new clean identity and the C7 honestly deserve the name, so this works out well.

You don't deserve anything that you don't pay or negotiate for.

 

[upstater]

You have love some of the arguments from visiting St John's and PC fans. What they did in the very distant past is significant, even if 45 years ago. UConn's success in the recent past, however, will not carry over into success in the future. Why? Because we are not affiliated any longer with the teams that won 45 years ago.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Good grief people. The guy posted some interesting and relevant news on a topic we've been discussing. He didn't attack UConn in any way or say anything negative. Let's have some class, unless you want the same rep as the Syracuse board. I think this outcome is the right one for UConn and for the C7.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

we should name it just "B!G"

I like it except that, given our current circumstances, we shouldn't capitalize the "b" and the "g"

We'll be the b!g writ small.

 

[mattp]

the C7 should have the name over a conference that includes Houston, SDState and Tulane, no question. Technically the name does have some value so I hope we get compensated and keep our NCAA credits but I'd rather the Big East go back to being a northeast market basketball conference than whatever it's going to become otherwise. It was a great conference for us and I wish it the best. It really sucks that last year's Big East Tournament has retroactively become the last I give a crap about. It used to be a really fun day trip in and maybe it still will be but it won't compare to what it used to be.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

we should name it just "B!G"

Upon further reflection, we simply paint the B1G logo on the basketball court. Then we get one of those really large decals of an exclamation point and apply it over the "1". Then when the invite comes we simply peel off the decal and voilà.

 

[SubbaBub]

I say the name is ours as the last member standing and we should shove it in a drawer. Let the C7 make their own way instead of trading on the accomplishments of the FB schools they detested so much.

It's business.

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[sdhusky]

I think because you can't petition until after it indeed does happen, then I think the assurances part he referenced is what they would need to pull the trigger on this.

Anyway the FB schools need a new clean identity and the C7 honestly deserve the name, so this works out well.

The programs that did the least for the BE (except assure its destruction) deserve the name?

Yeah, that Seton Hall, DePaul, PC battles were epic. It's not like UCONN, SU, Pitt, UofL, ND ever did anything.

 

[IMind]

Vuce,

You started it. And yes we have sucked for the better part of the last 10+ years with even only a modicum of success in the BE before that.

We need a fresh start and we are apparently getting one. Also getting a fresh new practice facility for men's hoops, just like you guys.

It probably wont be just like ours... I mean it'll probably have basketballs and stuff like that... but it'll lack a few national titles... the prescence of former NBA lottery picks working out there in the summer... and Hall of Fame coaches... but hey Foxwoods seems to have a lot of Ernie DiGregorio memorabilia you guys could have.

 

[zls44]

Was going to say, really like Leaman and what he's doing down there. Just don't act like you won Hockey East & send out a celebratory email after you tie BC.

*sorry, continue flamefes*

I'll say this, if and when UConn ever beats BU they are more than welcome to send out such e-mails. But they are basically a D-III program, unlike PC.

 

[BlueMAB]

The bottom half of the conference (except G-town and Nova) is leaving.

No UConn, Cuse, Louisville, WVU, Pitt, or Cincy. The Big East name is no longer worth anything. MSG will certainly be able to get out of any contract based on what happened to the conference. The NCAA credits should be distributed to those who earned them. But PC is used to getting that which it hasn't earned just by being in a conference with UConn and the rest of the aformentioned schools, so I'm sure this entitled piss ant will whine about that.