Great Danes 61, BCU Beagles 57 | Page 2 | The Boneyard

Great Danes 61, BCU Beagles 57

Hi-Low said:
Pitt & Cuse do have a major football tradition so don't really blame them. Cuse had Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little. Pitt had Marino and Dorsett, Ditka, Revis, Fitzgerald..we're talking some of the greatest players in football history so Football drives the ship for them just like Basketball should drive UConn ship.
Expand ...
BC had a short QB once too.
 
The best part about BCU in the ACC is even despite their ACC money, they have nothing to show for it. Alumni Stadium is a dump. The facilities for the athletes are average at best. They hire a basketball coach from the CAA -- really not stretching that budget despite the ACC funds. All of that to go 2-6 in the ACC in football and squeeze into a bowl game in Annapolis vs East Carolina. So have to wonder where all that money is going, or more likely which school executives are lining their pockets at the expense of the student-athletes and the "super" fans. Great success all around!
 
Things could have been a lot different. Imagine if you will, the Big East programs got together and figured out it wasn't going to work long term. Miami, UCONN, Syracuse, Pitt, Va Tech, WVU, Rutgers, Cincy, L-Ville could have split off and possibly merged with the ACC in one fell swoop. That would have kept the Big East flavor and Northeast interest much higher than the way it dissolved.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
You are right. BCU athletics are a smashing success in the ACC.
Expand ...
He’s not wrong. Obviously the BE is a great hoops move, but much of the rivalry allure of the OBE is totally gone. And then there is football. From a pure competition point of view, football would get a shot in the arm from a move into the ACC. If being an Indy makes us better off than being in a decent conference is unknowable I doubt it. Obviously Cuse and BC are wallowing competitively in hoops. Would we have the same fate? Who knows.
 
I wouldn’t say MUCH, I would say “some”.
There are still plenty of old regional rivals in the league. I never considered Seton Hall a big rival but they will likely become one over time because they are a good basketball program. Better than Cuse and Pitt right now.

The Big East is off to a great start. Enjoy the conference play. Meanwhile the ACC couldn’t be much more embarrassing quite frankly.

This is our first year attending Big East games again in person. It’s about to get intense.
 
.-.
cohenzone said:
Obviously Cuse and BC are wallowing competitively in hoops. Would we have the same fate? Who knows.
Expand ...
I say no. If we were added it would have helped all three, like a 3-legged stool. A stronger northern presence together. But they were too busy sticking the shiv to see it. Instead, they they are floating alone, just like a couple of stools.
 
jibsey said:
Yes but they don’t want to leave because the money is so much more from football? Is that right?
Expand ...

I don't get it though... with all this money they should be investing in the athletic program and I see places like SU begging for money to upgrade athletic facilities. Sounds like not as lucrative as it sounds in the ACC for those who left for green pastures.


www.syracuse.com

Take a tour of Syracuse’s antiquated athletics facilities. A plea to donors for $150 million to fix them: ‘We’re behind’

A look at where Syracuse stands in the facilities arms race, and the plea to donors for $150 million to renovate Manley Field House.
www.syracuse.com www.syracuse.com
 
jibsey said:
Yes but they don’t want to leave because the money is so much more from football? Is that right?
Expand ...

Yes, the schools get a ton more money, it's a financial bonanza

But in athletic accomplishments, what us fans care most about, they're a complete and utter bust

I would love for the school to get 15 million or so more dollars every year, but not at the expense of being losers in everything

The Karma Gods are nasty. You don't want to mess with them
 
Can't wait until the NBE becomes the best conference in college basketball. Just like the original
 
nelsonmuntz said:
You are right. BCU athletics are a smashing success in the ACC.
Expand ...
I am right. My point wasn't about how good we'd be in the P5, it's just that we'd all take it, and every fan would celebrate like a kid on Christmas. That's why judging them for making the move is illogical.
 
.-.
willie99 said:
Can't wait until the NBE becomes the best conference in college basketball. Just like the original
Expand ...
That isn't happening until Gonzaga joins.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I am right. My point wasn't about how good we'd be in the P5, it's just that we'd all take it, and every fan would celebrate like a kid on Christmas. That's why judging them for making the move is illogical.
Expand ...
A lot of it is about the timing of it all. They never should have opened the floodgates to conference realignment and never should have left the Big East.
BC was widely mocked at the time for making the move (outside of Cheatnut Hill that is).
Even without BC I was perfectly fine with what was left and am still pissed ESPN worked to split up the league in round 2 after the league went to open market.
Unfortunately Pitt and Syracuse didn’t have the guts to say no once ESPN started making its move via the ACC.
Regardless the new Big East has acquitted itself quite well and BC and Cuse
 
Last edited:
Once ESPN decided that UConn's athletic program had to die, I can see why so many schools bolted. Who wanted to stand up to ESPN in 2011?
 
HJG1984 said:
Pittsburgh basketball lost to Monmouth
Expand ...
Huskies escaped them by 3 points in OT a few years ago in a year they finished 10-20 and under .500 in their conference....
 
.-.
Waquoit said:
There will be more excitement in the XL on Saturday alone then there has been in BCU's entire program over last decade.
Expand ...

And probably more fans in the stands Saturday than BCUs total for home games over that decade.
 
Palatine said:
I'm more afraid of farfegnugen.
Expand ...
I remember !!

1639572005406.png
 
BC has just been dreadful in hoops. I don't see how it gets better for them. Tops recruits who want to play in the ACC are NOT going to BC and there are a ton of really good options for recruits in the northeast. One of them has won four NCs and has a hot new coach.

BC will see the Tourney 1 or 2 times over 20 years if they're lucky. Just no way to bring the horses in there.
 
Killings and Culture

“He’s about the right things,” Killings said Thursday of Cerruti, “and that’s why he’s on the court.” A 6-foot-4, 190-pound guard, Cerruti was an intriguing addition this past offseason for the Great Danes. Not only was Cerruti heading to the Great Danes from a Division II program, but Cerruti — who was Killings’ first commit after he was hired in mid-March — didn’t play any basketball last season since Lock Haven didn’t participate in the 2020-21 season due to pandemic-related reasons. Killings had known Cerruti, though, since his days playing in the Philadelphia Catholic League. Cerruti was a player that Killings had respected — and one that the coach was confident could play a role, if nothing else, in helping to build the type of culture Killings wanted for his program. Killings said it sticks with him that, during the Great Danes’ first summer workout, Cerruti took a charge during a session that nobody would’ve blamed him if he avoided taking the contact.

But? “He’s a winner,” Killings said, “and winners win.”
 
.-.
Doesn't matter. Neither Goldie Hawn or Meg Ryan are winning there...........hell, John Wooden wouldn't have won there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,269
Messages
4,560,826
Members
10,451
Latest member
WashingtonH


Top Bottom