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Feelings on the downfall of our historic rivals?

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But not you Georgetown - just get your ish together stat.
 
I think if Louisville makes the right hire they could pick up momentum fast, there is alot of space in the ACC especially with K and williams stepping down.... Pitt I think may have some trouble and Syracuse seems to be in an awful place. So I would certainly feel most comfortable dancing on Pitt and Syracuse over Louisville... BC, I havent thought about ever
 
CaptainRon said:
They aren’t welcome. This is a basketball centric conference.
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yeah not sure what those willing to accept cuse and pitt back into the fold think is gonna happen to their football programs... only way it could happen is if there's a giant merger of the two conferences resulting in the "Big East Coast Conference"

26 teams for bball and 16 teams for football, including ND as a full member.
 
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A good chunk of our historic rivals aren’t doing so hot these days..Pitt, Cuse, GTown, BC, L’Ville* all in shambles. What is your general feeling about this development? all of them except Georgetown. We regrouped and the conference is doing well with still more upside.

Do we have room to talk given our struggles towards the end of the AAC days? Absolutely. UCONN survived repeated kicks to the cajones and all they did was try to consider it some kind of victory.

Do we get to boast because they destroyed the old Big East? 100%.

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Based on current records, this has been a rough year but Cuse hasn't really fallen since they've actually made NCAA's over the last few years.
 
Woodson said:
Georgetown is 0-17 in the league, they've lost 18 GAMES IN A ROW. Knowing DC sports fans, I'm actually shocked any showed up at all
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Maybe so, but we don't hate them.
 
UconnFanDC said:
Based on current records, this has been a rough year but Cuse hasn't really fallen since they've actually made NCAA's over the last few years.
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Agreed! However, they just chocked against UNC and now are 15-15.
 
It’s clear from the return to the big east that rivalries are the foundation of college basketball, and help the teams involved.

The best true rivalries require history & geography i.e. who gets excited (recruits or fans) about UConn cinci or UConn Houston

For UConn to take the next step we need a Duke/UNC esq rivalry. Hopefully that will be UConn Nova, but fading other big name rivals into obscurity will not be good for our program long term

Unpopular opinion - let those programs recover (slowly) behind us, and get them scheduled OOC so we (fans & recruits) can get excited about beating them down every year
 
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mrl2016 said:
It’s clear from the return to the big east that rivalries are the foundation of college basketball, and help the teams involved.

The best true rivalries require history & geography i.e. who gets excited (recruits or fans) about UConn cinci or UConn Houston

For UConn to take the next step we need a Duke/UNC esq rivalry. Hopefully that will be UConn Nova, but fading other big name rivals into obscurity will not be good for our program long term

Unpopular opinion - let those programs recover (slowly) behind us, and get them scheduled OOC so we (fans & recruits) can get excited about beating them down every year
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We should be playing Syracuse home and home in both basketball and football every year.
 
shizzle787 said:
We should be playing Syracuse home and home in both basketball and football every year.
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Was at the game when Hurley had the Jalen chest bump into the Boeheim handshake

Met some real jerks from the Syracuse side but still had a blast and most importantly the atmosphere was electric
 
I’m happy about every rival except those in the big east. I would love it if Georgetown was a top 25 team that consistently lost to the good guys. I hope Syracuse spends a decade or two in the basement
 
mrl2016 said:
For UConn to take the next step we need a Duke/UNC esq rivalry. Hopefully that will be UConn Nova, but fading other big name rivals into obscurity will not be good for our program long term
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cuse and pitt being bad does not negatively impact us in any way, shape, or form. if anything it's a positive because we have two fewer programs in our recruiting footprint to compete with

gtown and other current BE rivals being bad can hurt us in the long run, but cuse and pitt arent dead weight dragging down our conference. let them drag the acc down and make the BE look better by comparison.
 
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I quite enjoyed watching Syracuse's OT loss this evening. Tantalizing chance at a win only to go down in flames again.

They've got Miami, 4th in the ACC, at the Dome on Saturday. A loss will give them their first losing season under JAB.
 
Syracuse, Pitt, and BC had some success before the Big East, but no one outside of their neighborhood cared about them. The Big East made them, and survived and thrives without them.
Louisville was a major power before the Big East, but they were here for only 8 years, so it isn't the same to me. Butler, Creighton, and Xavier have been in the Big East longer than Louisville, Cincinnati, and South Florida were, and they're better fits.
 
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Don't follow those programs. Don't care about those programs.
 
elmcityboy said:
cuse lost to a bubble unc team tonight DESPITE getting 36 points on 14-21 shooting from cole swider. yikes.
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They're going out on a 4 game losing streak and finish with a losing record if they lose to Miami...potentially 6 if they get bounced out of the conference tourney and the CBI. I'd really hate to see it. /s
 
If someone has some free time, a thread of all Cuse’s hot takes from their board and twitter over the last feed years would be a great off-season thread. The summer would go be so quick
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
The very word "Kentucky" is low-hanging fruit for the snobbish sensibilities of a Nutmegger. That's part of the way we don't look so good to a lot of others.

Don't get me wrong; I've lived more than 4 decades in nice places in Hartford, Fairfield, and New Haven counties, as well as Rochester, Boston, both suburban counties on Long Island, and Manhattan.

I'm writing these words from Louisville, where I've been since December 23rd. It's at least my 10th time since 1991, and I`ve always liked it. There's a lot to like.

Pitino's downfall, and Mack's flame-out make U of L look particularly ripe & juicy, if you're predisposed to equating the consolidated Louisville metro city, Cardinal basketball's self-inflicted wounds, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, but it's cheap shot and doesn't really add up.

Tom Jurich prepared for and then outmaneuvered Warde Manuel & UConn for the final ACC slot, and Louisville was a better fit. Notre Dame should have been the odd one out, playing basketball with its Catholic brethren.

If you don't care about football (I don't), then right now it looks like we're in a better place. Does it sustain long term? I don't know, but I'm old enough that it won't affect me if it all goes south for the Big East.

It's understandable that most here would dislike UofL, because they beat us at a time when it hurt the most. But the city is nice and getting better, and the university is as well.

As to the thread's focus, I DON'T hate to see it happen that Syracuse finished the game with Swider falling a point short of a opponent's scoring record, and that the Orange lost to an 8.5 point spread, after being up with the ball with 15 seconds.
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Wasn’t even talking about the university. Just gave my impressions of the city from two business trips. And guess what — I’m not sorry that I have opinions.
 
UcannUconn said:
A good chunk of our historic rivals aren’t doing so hot these days..Pitt, Cuse, GTown, BC, L’Ville* all in shambles. What is your general feeling about this development? Do we have room to talk given our struggles towards the end of the AAC days? Do we get to boast because they destroyed the old Big East?
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I’ll laugh at them for now with the full understanding they were laughing at us a years ago. Things can change quick
 
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