Catholic schools leaving this year, taking Big East name

[huskiesnyc]

Quite well. I'm just disappointed I won't get to watch you clowns melt down after your annual PC loss.

When is the last time you had a better season than UConn? Maybe 1 time in the last 25 years? Enjoy getting swept by us this year, and living off G-town instead of us moving forward.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

National title run next year? Who's being delusional?

You do realize that teams that win 20+ games and then return every single important player the next year are usually awfully good, right? If Shabazz Napier comes back, Uconn will be ranked no worse than the 10-15 range in next year's preseason poll.

I know PC fans believe every year that Uconn is "this close" to falling off the cliff, but it sure as hell won't be next year.

 

[Deleted member 3149]

You do realize that teams that win 20+ games and then return every single important player the next year are usually awfully good, right? If Shabazz Napier comes back, Uconn will be ranked no worse than the 10-15 range in next year's preseason poll.

I know PC fans believe every year that Uconn is "this close" to falling off the cliff, but it won't be next year.

Ohhhh, NOW I see what the PC fan did. He must have put the loss of RJ Evans into consideration. Okay, okay....

 

[Rico444]

Let's see...would I rather be part of a hoops conference with Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, DePaul, and oh yea...Xavier and Butler, or

A misfit, I'm not sure what I'm good at conference with UCONN, USF, Cincy, Tulane, Houston, Memphis, Central FL, SMU, Boise State, and San Diego...oh wait, didn't Boise State and SDSU already jump ship before their tenure even began?

You can spin it however you want, but UCONN is in a bad place and it's killing you buffoons that things are looking pretty good for the PeeCees and Johnnies of the C7.

Things are looking good for PC? You've been in the best basketball conference for the last 30 years, and have done nothing but **** all over yourselves.

There's no doubt Uconn's in an awful spot, but our basketball program becomes Memphis at absolute worst, which is far from a given, and that still means we're light years ahead of Providence.

 

[Vuce]

Already on my my calendar. I always love visiting the boneyard and I can't even imagine how much fun it will be a year from now.

You mean when Uconn is in the NCAA Tourney again and PC isn't (as usual)?

 

[Husky25]

This makes absolutely no sense. As has been made abundantly clear during the whole conference realignment perception is reality. The name the big east will add value because it reminds people of basketball history (or at the very least it sticks it to the C-7, i mean this is like your grilfriend cheating on you and you giving her a nice long back rub because your best friend really worked her over hard, at a certain point there's just no need to be that cool about it makes you look weak). There is absolutely no reason to sell the name even if everyone that was in the conference leaves.

Disagree. Any goodwill in the name Big East will be used up within 3 seasons post-split.

It reminds me of the movie, Late Shift, about Leno and Letterman vying for Carson's Tonight Show. When Letterman final gets his break, Peter Lassally tells him he's not getting Carson's Tonight Show, it's used goods and he doesn't even get it now, he gets it 18 months from now.

This is how I see the Big East. The Butler, Creighton, et. al. is not getting the 1987 Big East (3 teams in the Final 4), or the 1996 Big East (3 1st team All-Americans in the same year). They aren't even getting the 2000's Big East (records for teams in the tournement from one conference), they are getting the C7 Big East. It's used goods.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Let's see...would I rather be part of a hoops conference with Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, DePaul, and oh yea...Xavier and Butler, or

A misfit, I'm not sure what I'm good at conference with UCONN, USF, Cincy, Tulane, Houston, Memphis, Central FL, SMU, Boise State, and San Diego...oh wait, didn't Boise State and SDSU already jump ship before their tenure even began?

You can spin it however you want, but UCONN is in a bad place and it's killing you buffoons that things are looking pretty good for the PeeCees and Johnnies of the C7.

You do realize that the C7 had to add teams from the A-10 in order to make it a respectable basketball conference, right? The C-7 is three good programs and four perennial Big East bottom feeders.

 

[Yonick]

Eventually, UConn will get into a major conference. Everybody knows this. For our "beloved" PC fans, what they have to worry about is UConn being part of a 4 or 5 league conference of between 64-80 teams that have both football & hoops in the repitore.
Those schools may very well split from the NCAA leaving the catholic schools to literally & figuratively play with themselves.
Bet on it. This will happen within the next 5-10 years.

 

[upstater]

Let's see...would I rather be part of a hoops conference with Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, DePaul, and oh yea...Xavier and Butler, or

A misfit, I'm not sure what I'm good at conference with UCONN, USF, Cincy, Tulane, Houston, Memphis, Central FL, SMU, Boise State, and San Diego...oh wait, didn't Boise State and SDSU already jump ship before their tenure even began?

You can spin it however you want, but UCONN is in a bad place and it's killing you buffoons that things are looking pretty good for the PeeCees and Johnnies of the C7.

Admit it, you root for one of the aforementioned dregs. In prior years, you'd brag about your association with UConn, Syracuse and Louisville, while bottom feeding on scum. So the new conference is to your liking BECAUSE it feels so familiar.

 

[upstater]

National title run next year? Who's being delusional?

You said the same thing in 2011.

 

[upstater]

Quite well. I'm just disappointed I won't get to watch you clowns melt down after your annual PC loss.

Quite well?

And that is why you are PC.

 

[ilikebattlins]

Eventually, UConn will get into a major conference. Everybody knows this.

Who's everyone? The UCONN football program is a joke. Since football is all that matters, clearly the premise behind the eventual demise of the new UCONN-less Big East, why would anyone want UCONN?

 

[partial]

This is how I see the Big East. The Butler, Creighton, et. al. is not getting the 1987 Big East (3 teams in the Final 4), or the 1996 Big East (3 1st team All-Americans in the same year). They aren't even getting the 2000's Big East (records for teams in the tournement from one conference), they are getting the C7 Big East. It's used goods.

Yea but what you're doing is using your brain to argue that the inherent value of something is gone. The name itself has history and it has value beyond a simple one time payment. At worst keeping it does nothing and we lose out on a some amount of money that will be split god knows how many ways. But if it does help in terms of perception it's well worth keeping, in particular, i think it's well worth keeping to simply not legitimize the C-7 as there is no logical reason for the big east to help a new conference.

 

[upstater]

Who's everyone? The UCONN football program is a joke. Since football is all that matters, clearly the premise behind the eventual demise of the new UCONN-less Big East, why would anyone want UCONN?

We just spent a week of NFL.com and ESPN repeating that UConn brings the talent. And it does, multiple players getting drafted and invited to the biggest events. I know you don't follow football because your school can't field a team, but the fact is, UConn produced more high level talent this year than hundreds of other D1 teams.

 

[RichCTBB]

I'm sure they'll be fine. Recruits drool over the prospect of playing in front of a packed house at The UCF Arena - ironically named, The Dungeon

Does the Misfit 8 Tournament Champion get an automatic bid?

PEECEE Basketball is lucky to be even associated with a basketball conference. Aside from a handful of regular season upset wins over several seasons, your program literally has accomplished nothing and has very little, if anything, to be proud of. On top of it all, there's absolutely no reason to believe that PEECEE will all of the sudden get vaulted to National prominence. UConn has done far more this season with far less personnel than even the best teams of PEECEE's past and despite all the conference realignment, has a much more promising future that pretty much any of the C-7. It's almost as though we've been playing with one hand tied behind our back...and winning. Have fun sucking the toes of the rest of the bottom feeders while you stare up at all of your championship banners hanging from the rafters of that God-forsaken cock-fighting arena.

 

[Husky25]

Read some of the posts in this thread. Any goodwill in the name, The Big East, will be exhausted within three years. People'll see Big East Basketball on their channel guide, tune in, and get Providence vs. Creighton being billed as a national game, when in years past, they would have gotten actual powers schools. We live in a 24/7 world with a What-have-you-done-for-me-lately attitude. Shamefully the name is on its way to becoming incredible...and not in a good way.

In the end, I see Georgetown and Butler remaining relevent. Nova's stature will be the same as it has been (i.e. good years sprinkled in the rebuilding years), Marquette is not really focused on their athletic program and then you have SJU, PC, Depaul, and SHU will remain irrelevent.

 

[The Viking]

Who's everyone? The UCONN football program is a joke. Since football is all that matters, clearly the premise behind the eventual demise of the new UCONN-less Big East, why would anyone want UCONN?

How is UConn football a joke? Explain. Considering they've been Div 1 for what 9 or 10 years, they've done OK for themselves.

 

[The Viking]

Quite well. I'm just disappointed I won't get to watch you clowns melt down after your annual PC loss.

You know things have gone crazy when a fan of one of the most irrelevant college hoops programs in the last 20 years is coming here to talk smack.
The good news is now that his child-molesting conference is without us and Cuse and Pitt and Ville and ND, maybe his program can do OK.

 

[ilikebattlins]

We just spent a week of NFL.com and ESPN repeating that UConn brings the talent. And it does, multiple players getting drafted and invited to the biggest events. I know you don't follow football because your school can't field a team, but the fact is, UConn produced more high level talent this year than hundreds of other D1 teams.

Hundreds? Apparently you don't follow football either since there are only 119 D1 programs out there. Hundreds? Hmmm.

 

[ilikebattlins]

You do realize that the C7 had to add teams from the A-10 in order to make it a respectable basketball conference, right? The C-7 is three good programs and four perennial Big East bottom feeders.

How many teams do the Misfit 8 need to add to make it a respectable basketball conference? No matter, I'm sure the Big Ten is already drafting its invite for UCONN.

 

[UChusky916]

LOL I love the annual (in this case, bi-annual) PC morons that come over to troll our board before our games. Priceless entertainment.

If we return everyone next year and we get SOMEONE in the paint that can grab a rebound or block a shot (Nolan/Brimah/Wolf), then we are legit title contenders. Even moronic PC fans can't ignore that.

I don't understand why PC fans they think they're entitled to preach about our program's demise when their's hasn't had a pulse in decades.

 

[Phoenixhusky]

PC actually put a smile on my face because they are so dumb. Here in Arizona even non Uconn fans know about Uconn and the three national championships. No one out here knows anything about PC except they have a histroy of being bad...

 

[RichCTBB]

Hundreds? Apparently you don't follow football either since there are only 119 D1 programs out there. Hundreds? Hmmm.

You really shouldn't be here. PEECEE has literally no relevance in any sport. I challenge you to list any post season accomplishments over the last 15 years. UConn has 3 national championships and 4 final 4 appearances in that span. Last I checked, a NC is the biggest prize of them all. In addition, our football program has multiple bowl wins and a BCS appearance after only having been D1 for only a short time. Oh, I forgot to mention that our soccer teams have also been a constant presence in the national spotlight for well over a decade. So please please please....I'm begging you to show me 1 redeeming quality of any PEECEE athletic program.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the women's BBall program. Rumor has it that they've done pretty well for themselves.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

How many teams do the Misfit 8 need to add to make it a respectable basketball conference? No matter, I'm sure the Big Ten is already drafting its invite for UCONN.

I didn't say Uconn was in a great basketball conference. The bottom half of our conference is atrocious. But so is the bottom half of yours.

 

[RichCTBB]

I didn't say Uconn was in a great basketball conference. The bottom half of our conference is atrocious. But so is the bottom half of yours.

Exactly. It's programs like PEECEE that bring down the class average.

 

[caw]

Yea...I'm on the edge of my seat for next year's UCONN-Tulane matchup.

There will always be a market for good college basketball. We will will be in a conference that provides that. UCONN will likely not. Doesn't it piss you off when you're ugly schub ex is dating a doctor with a summer home on the Cape?

See the difference is, your team is the Tulane in this scenario. I'm looking forward to Georgetown-PC, Butler-PC, Marquette-PC...DePaul-PC.

 

[Husky25]

Yea...I'm on the edge of my seat for next year's UCONN-Tulane matchup.

There will always be a market for good college basketball. We will will be in a conference that provides that. UCONN will likely not. Doesn't it piss you off when you're ugly schub ex is dating a doctor with a summer home on the Cape?

I typically don't feed the trolls, but this guy makes it too easy...

THe difference between UConn and PC, is that PC is happy to be associated with a conference that fulfills the market for good college basketball. UConn is the team that provides it.

 

[ilikebattlins]

I typically don't feed the trolls, but this guy makes it too easy...

THe difference between UConn and PC, is that PC is happy to be associated with a conference that fulfills the market for good college basketball. UConn is the team that provides it.

No doubt that UCONN has had a very successful run. The problem is that barring ND and Texas, TV contracts aren't given to individual schools, they are given to conferences. See, as good as UCONN has been, ESPN pays for games that require two teams. UCONN/Cuse, UCONN/Ville, UCONN/Gtown, even UCONN/PC due to it's penchant for upsets. When a worthwhile partner isn't available, the value of UCONN's "provided success" is greatly diminished.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...t-catholic-7s-new-conference-uconn-cincinnati

 

[seanmc94]

How did Ledo and Dunn work out for you???????????????????? And Austin is a thug who doesn't pass the ball. I've seen him play. Don't expect him to be anything great as your point guard.

Ah, Austin is a thug. That's why your board went into melt down mode when he chose PC

Recurring theme

LaFleur will never go to PC....now he's a stiff, we didn't want him
Dunn is ours....we didn't want him
Ledo is a Husky!...We ne er wanted a potential lottery pick anyway
Austin to Storrs...he's a thug, we don't want him