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James Wiseman announcing tomorrow

Towney007 said:
The conference still sucks, but w/ UConn doing what it's needed to do for years now and Memphis pulling in a recruiting class like this.... it's looking like a pretty darn legit conference in 2 years. Wichita State will stay good, Cincinnati has consistently hovered around the top 25, UCF and Houston continue to figure it out and Temple and Tulsa have at least maintained a floor. If SMU can stay the course, you're looking at a pretty darn good hoops conference.

The issue's always going to be USF, ECU and Tulane and whether they can get their lives together. Tulane though - is looking like they should.
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A leagues rep grows from the top down not the other way .
If you have legitimate power teams and even more importantly players who become famous in your first 6-7 spots than recruiting for the ECU’s And Tulane’s become a lot easier.
UConn was able to recruit nationally largely on the strength of Big East mid 80’s.
success. Players like Ewing getting drafted first overall helped.
To be honest You can attract top coaches up and down also , no Georgetown, Nova , St John’s success no Jim Calhoun.
 
gampelcrazies said:
I never once rooted for any big east team besides UConn. I hated them all!
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Well then you were foolishly shooting yourself in the foot, because the better they were the more they tested UConn, and the more they tested UConn the higher their RPI and the more success we had on the court and in recruiting. Further, the farther other teams went, the more money UConn got.

It's no surprise that those great UConn teams that couldn't get into the FF played in a weaker league.
 
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BUConn10 said:
No it wasn’t hatred.

But you would NEVER log into Twitter right at 8AM with your fingers crossed to see where some elite recruit decided to go, hoping it’s your conference mate, or even conference rival.
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Twitter was barely out of the womb when we left the Big East. Certainly it was not nearly as ubiquitous back then as it is now. So there is no way to know that.
 
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RichZ said:
Three words -- dry rub ribs.
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Except for Rendezvous.

They do hot and fast with a frequent mop. and they are baby back!



Weird that the most famous Rib place in Memphis (Rendezvous) doesnt make Memphis style Ribs:
Dry Rubbed St. Louis cut Spare ribs.
 
temery said:
I always rooted for Big East teams unless they were playing UConn.
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This philosophy cost me in so many NCAA tourney pools. I would always have 6 or 7 Big East teams in the Sweet 16. I felt we were invincible and then 4 or 5 of them would lose in the opening round.
 
The announcement should come within the hour. No matter what, both Dan and Penny have been such good fits at UConn and Memphis. And they're both so young...

 
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August_West said:
pretty much.

But I could never bring myself to root for Pitt.

I cant quite remember but I think I even rooted for Syracuse over Kansas in 03.

Because that made us the uncrowned national champion.
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For me it was Cuse. I took enormous pleasure in their crushing defeats year after year. 2003 was a tough time for me.

I always rooted for Pitt in the ncaa tournament, because it was a miracle when they'd make it out of the 1st weekend; As one of the perennial better OBE teams, they'd continuously make the conference look bad. I was always like come on guys, wtf.
 
RichZ said:
I would always root for our Big East rivals except (obviously) against us. Most of them, anyway. Could not/would not ever root for 'cuse or Louisville.
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Yup. Those 2 were my "never in a million years" teams
 
Primadonna or what?
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
I never rooted for Syracuse under any circumstances. If they played Duke I rooted for Duke. Gross but true.
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They weren't exactly easy to root for but I was pulling for them to win it all. Aren't you from up that way?
 
I think the most interesting thing in this whole deal is how Penny will do once the guys he worked with at the HS/AAU level have moved on. I'm sure they'll always have a strong hold on local talent as long as he's there, but to have this many top end guys in one class from the same area seems rare.

Does he start bringing in new assistants every few years that have deep ties to recruits? What happens if he gets these guys and they just aren't able to mesh together a team in time before some/most move on to the NBA? Will he still have the same hunger for recruiting when he starts really fighting UK/Duke for players that he doesn't have major in-roads with?

It's going to be a fascinating story to watch over the next few years.
 
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Pgh2Storrs said:
I think the most interesting thing in this whole deal is how Penny will do once the guys he worked with at the HS/AAU level have moved on. I'm sure they'll always have a strong hold on local talent as long as he's there, but to have this many top end guys in one class from the same area seems rare.

Does he start bringing in new assistants every few years that have deep ties to recruits? What happens if he gets these guys and they just aren't able to mesh together a team in time before some/most move on to the NBA? Will he still have the same hunger for recruiting when he starts really fighting UK/Duke for players that he doesn't have major in-roads with?

It's going to be a fascinating story to watch over the next few years.
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From what I read his current staff has a lot of tight ties to the AAU there, he prob won’t have to keep rotating aau guys. Mike Miller has family/friends running a real competitive program, penny has his connections too
 
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