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Just watched ESPN’s 30 for 30 Requiem For the Big East

gsmooth said:
It really was not a complete documentary. By the time they did that documentary Georgetown was mostly irrelevant.
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Agreed but you’re missing the point. The show was about the brainchild inception of a Big East from Dave Gavitt and how he collectively brought the northeast power schools to form a new league. I’m not injecting any UConn bias here on whether we’re were disadvantaged or snubbed.
CL82 said:
We?
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yes we. Sorry about the typo.
 
FearThePups said:
Yeah, to the same Duke team in the 1990 championship final and the 1991 Duke national championship team. Those were pinnacle accomplishments for our program at that time. Why do so many of you have an inferiority complex because you still think to this day we were disrespected back then when we had won nothing.
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Losing to Duke was an accomplishment? Not the big east title or beating Syracuse and Gtown. Getting a 1 seed and achieving our highest rank in school history. I think those things are accomplishments. Losing to duke is just losing to duke like we had done back in the 70s. Where did i mention us being disrespected exactly?
 
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Well, it should have just been titled requiem for Cuse and Georgetown because those are what died that day. The Big East has as many NC’s since then as Syracuse has field of 64 appearances.

I’ve stated this before but Pitt and Syracuse announcing the move to the ACC on the day Dave Gavitt died has cursed those programs.
 
gsmooth said:
No question.

Georgetown was the Big East team of the 80s.

UConn was the Big East team of the 90s.

UConn was the Big East team of the 2000s.
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For the OG fans: I thought the Big East wasn't really THAT good in the 90s? And that UConn in '99 ended a championship drought?

I wasn't around them. So I'm genuinely asking. Was the league considered Elite during the early and mid 90s?
 
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lonsharkin51 said:
We have to cede the 2010s to Nova, but UConn is the Big East team of the 2020s already.
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2010s was easily to Nova. I don't think anyone in their right mind would debate that. UConn won 2 titles in the 2010s, but only 1 of them was in the Big East. The 2011 championship was a storybook season with story lines of Kemba becoming the timeless legend of college basketball, winning the BET by winning 5 games and 5 nights, and that team being 14-0 tournament style games. The Nova teams of 2016 and 2018 were simply stellar and pristine.
 
ecasadoSBU said:
For the OG fans: I thought the Big East wasn't really THAT good in the 90s? And that UConn in '99 ended a championship drought?

I wasn't around them. So I'm genuinely asking. Was the league considered Elite during the early and mid 90s?
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Yes. You had UConn regularly ranked in the top 5, but there were also the stars of the league in that period.

Ray Allen, Rip Hamilton Donyell Marshall and others from UConn. But you also had Alonzo Mourning bridging the 80s and 90s, Kerry Kittles and of course Allen Iverson. '96 Syracuse was in the national championship game. '91 St John's, UConn and Seton Hall all made a run. BC in '94, G'town and Syracuse in '96, Providence in '91, West Virginia in '98, St John's in '99. It wasn't at 80s level but it was up there in star power and expectations.
 
Yeah, that was a good 30 for 30 —came out a while ago - when the big east was king - nothing better to get you through a Monday after nfl ended during those dead days of January and February and watching “big Monday” on ESPN -,always a classic Big East matchup. Ewing , moten, kittles ray ray , mullin, pearl rony seikaly , Eric Murdock , shamgod, terry dehere, Dana barrows - I cud go on and on —- damn I literally was like 8-9 yrs old back then and grew up watching all those greats. So thankful I grew up at that time. Just watching sports and playing sports all day no matter the season. Amazing how much the college landscape has changed. So crazy. Conference realignment still blows my mind. UCLA in big 10? Cuse and Pitt and BC in ACC? Wild. At least I got the memories.
 
upstater said:
Yes. You had UConn regularly ranked in the top 5, but there were also the stars of the league in that period.

Ray Allen, Rip Hamilton Donyell Marshall and others from UConn. But you also had Alonzo Mourning bridging the 80s and 90s, Kerry Kittles and of course Allen Iverson. '96 Syracuse was in the national championship game. '91 St John's, UConn and Seton Hall all made a run. BC in '94, G'town and Syracuse in '96, Providence in '91, West Virginia in '98, St John's in '99. It wasn't at 80s level but it was up there in star power and expectations.
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Oh yeah. The big east was loaded in the 90s. As was southern New England basketball -,especially in the mid to late 90s where you had Providence URI BC Uconn and UMass all legitimate. I think they all made it to at least elite 8 once in span from 95-98. Sick times
 
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First writing a "requiem" for something that you tried, but failed to kill is the height of hubris. Basically ESPN is saying this conference is now dead. That 30 for 30 was an attempt at a coup de grâce, finishing the job they had tried to do by sponsoring multiple conference raids.

But let's set that aside, if you're going to do a documentary on the big east maybe you need to include the team that has both the most conference regular season and tournament championships.
Connecticut has eight tournament championships time, Georgetown. Here's the details:
  • Georgetown - 8 (1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2007, 2021)
  • UConn - 8 (1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011, 2024)
  • Villanova - 6 (1995, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)
  • Syracuse - 5 (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
  • St. John's - 4 (1983, 1986, 2000, 2025)
  • Louisville - 3 (2009, 2012, 2013)
  • Seton Hall - 3 (1991, 1993, 2016)
  • Boston College - 2 (1997, 2001)
  • Pittsburgh - 2 (2003, 2008)
  • Providence - 2 (1994, 2014)
  • Marquette - 1 (2023)
  • West Virginia - 1 (2010)
 
Connecticut also has 11 regular season championships, tying it with Villanova, not withstanding the fact that it played seven less years. In fact, five of those Villanova championships were earned before Connecticut joined the conference that was spun off by the C7 and purchased the name "the big east".

[I was going to post the regular season results, but I couldn't do it with the character limitation. You can find it here.]

Bottom line, that documentary is trying to tell a story that the big east was once great, but "died" attempting to pursue football relevance. The fact that Connecticut was the winningest program, and continued to be a power in college basketball was an "inconvenient truth" and thus conveniently ignored for the purpose of that documentary.

 
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FearThePups said:
And how many titles during that time? Zero
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This place really is unreal - you can't even compliment other programs without some nancy finding it offensive. And then you are labeled "exhausting" for doing so. When what is exhausting is the insane sensitivity to anything that is even perceived as anti Uconn, when it's not the intent at all.

Uconn was an afterthought in the true heyday of the BE (the 80s), absolutely has been it's best team from the 90s through today outside the AAC run where Villanova filled in the blanks.
 
RuffRuff said:
This place really is unreal - you can't even compliment other programs without some nancy finding it offensive. And then you are labeled "exhausting" for doing so. When what is exhausting is the insane sensitivity to anything that is even perceived as anti Uconn, when it's not the intent at all.

Uconn was an afterthought in the true heyday of the BE (the 80s), absolutely has been it's best team from the 90s through today outside the AAC run where Villanova filled in the blanks.
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You're having a schizophrenic morning.

You call me a nancy and then you reproduce verbatim what I was saying in your final sentence.

I think you need to gather yourself at this point when posting here because clearly you've let this place get to your head.
 
upstater said:
You're having a schizophrenic morning.

You call me a nancy and then you reproduce verbatim what I was saying in your final sentence.

I think you need to gather yourself at this point when posting here because clearly you've let this place get to your head.
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I wasn’t referring to you. I apologize. Elsewhere where calling Dusty May a visionary in terms of his two big offense was seen as an anti-Christ view.
 
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RuffRuff said:
I wasn’t referring to you. I apologize. Elsewhere where calling Dusty May a visionary in terms of his two big offense was seen as an anti-Christ view.
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I'm just confused by your post since you seem to be agreeing with the pushback against Mr. Fear the Pups. I'm just saying that at this point the constant attacks against you have created a situation where you have knee-jerk reactions to a pile-on like this one. Which is understandable, I guess.

In general, I think 25 years of Calhoun have prepared me for (and innoculated me against any criticism of) Danny Hurley. I understand some UConn fans have soured on the antics, but given the Calhoun years, it certainly is perplexing.

For good or bad, UConn has had the most sustained leadership by irascible coaches in all of college basketball.
 
RuffRuff said:
I wasn’t referring to you. I apologize. Elsewhere where calling Dusty May a visionary in terms of his two big offense was seen as an anti-Christ view.
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I’m not as negative towards you as others even though I think I remember you defending Zanetto at one point but is he really a visionary when Phi Slamma Jamma and Hoya Paranoia already successfully implemented double bigs years ago? I assume the difference is usage as Akeem, Ralph x2, Ewing, Mourning, Dik Mutumbo, were more post up players. I haven’t watched much Michigan.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
I’m not as negative towards you as others even though I think I remember you defending Zanetto at one point
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saying GIF

Zanetto!​
 
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upstater said:
I'm just confused by your post since you seem to be agreeing with the pushback against Mr. Fear the Pups. I'm just saying that at this point the constant attacks against you have created a situation where you have knee-jerk reactions to a pile-on like this one. Which is understandable, I guess.

In general, I think 25 years of Calhoun have prepared me for (and innoculated me against any criticism of) Danny Hurley. I understand some UConn fans have soured on the antics, but given the Calhoun years, it certainly is perplexing.

For good or bad, UConn has had the most sustained leadership by irascible coaches in all of college basketball.
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Calhoun to Hurley has been an ideal pivot. Hurley is not perfect but we are incredibly lucky to have him, his flaws built around passion and loyalty.


Good share on Calhoun.
 
Way too little UConn footage in that doc. And one can only take so much boeheim & thompson.
 
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1) Kevin Ollie
2) Is UConn a Blue Blood
3) UConn's representation in any product by ESPN.
 
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