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Hit Netflix streaming not too long ago.
By the end of it, all I could really do is shrug. It was cool to learn about what the league was like before I was born, I guess. John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca were the best part of the film, Boeheim was the worst and, as always, comes off as a whiny jackass.
I get that the point of the film was to talk about the beginnings of the league, but it was BS to watch them act like expansion completely destroyed the league's basketball pedigree. The Big East was putting 10 teams in the tournament as recently as 2011. Schools like Marquette, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, West Virginia, and Louisville added to the competitiveness, they didn't water down the league.
And, of course, there's UConn getting zero mention. That tournament that they focused on so much, the one in MSG, not sure if they realized we actually won that tournament a lot of times.
Seton Hall got more coverage than we did. It seems like the filmmakers wanted to make a film about Syracuse and Georgetown more than a film about the Big East. And that's fine. But then you shouldn't call it "Requiem for the Big East".
That part at the end, when Boeheim is smiling and saying he's proud to be the last coach standing, oh man. I hope the hammer gets brought down on his program and he ends up "retiring" in disgrace.
By the end of it, all I could really do is shrug. It was cool to learn about what the league was like before I was born, I guess. John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca were the best part of the film, Boeheim was the worst and, as always, comes off as a whiny jackass.
I get that the point of the film was to talk about the beginnings of the league, but it was BS to watch them act like expansion completely destroyed the league's basketball pedigree. The Big East was putting 10 teams in the tournament as recently as 2011. Schools like Marquette, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, West Virginia, and Louisville added to the competitiveness, they didn't water down the league.
And, of course, there's UConn getting zero mention. That tournament that they focused on so much, the one in MSG, not sure if they realized we actually won that tournament a lot of times.
Seton Hall got more coverage than we did. It seems like the filmmakers wanted to make a film about Syracuse and Georgetown more than a film about the Big East. And that's fine. But then you shouldn't call it "Requiem for the Big East".
That part at the end, when Boeheim is smiling and saying he's proud to be the last coach standing, oh man. I hope the hammer gets brought down on his program and he ends up "retiring" in disgrace.