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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3187016, member: 1526"] I attended a Patriot League school for a couple of years. They have pulled some big upsets in the NCAAs over major powers. Like the Ivy League, they're smarter than all of their opponents, unless they're playing an Ivy League team, Stanford or Rice. They play very sound, fundamental basketball. If you're lucky enough, all it takes are one or two studs and they are capable of making a big run in the NCAAs. Incidentally, we are 21-42 vs them all time. Yes, a lot of that is ancient history. We used to play them home and away every year when we were in the Yankee Conference. I've never understood why. They had a kid named Michael Vicens in the mid 1970's who routinely ate our lunch. I think he might have been Puerto Rican. Sound familar? At least there you're mostly immune from the recruiting cesspool among major programs. It wouldn't be a bad gig for Moore, but it's a very tough league to win, and it's a one bid league. One nice thing is if you win the regular season, all your games in the conference tourney are at home as a one seed. At HC the only team that might draw a decent away crowd is BU, so you have a great home court advantage. As far as recruiting, you're unlikely to get kids good enough to make BB a pro career, but you can get good, smart kids who want a quality degree, and are intelligent enough to know they're not going to make a pro career in BB. Let's not forget they had a Heisman Trophy finalist in the mid-1980's...Gordie Lockbaum. It proves you can get noticed there if you're good enough. I've always wondered why they didn't join the original Big East? I think maybe it's because it was going to involve rolling in the muck with other institutions that were adept at cheating, or at least looking the other way on admissions. Good for them. [/QUOTE]

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