He specifically asked about ND outside of football and what ND would bring to the Big East table. The Big East cares. A Catholic U, National Brand, and Basketball round out the pluses. Yes basketball. I think ND has fallen victim to the ACC curse.
UConn's success in basketball keeps UConn in the national news and in the conversation for realignment.
Really? I agree that there's a lot of conversation about UConn and realignment in the Boneyard. But elsewhere? Not so much. Maybe an occasional reference to UConn as possible backfill if the ACC is wounded by defections. Other than Yappy's brief flirtation with UConn before the 4C schools fell into the B12's lap, I'm not aware of any specific P conference interest in the Huskies. If I'm missing something, then please enlighten me.
You are clearly willfully ignorant and not interested in any enlightenment.
Ironically, I see UConn and ND sharing a conference affiliation after next go around.
Yep, people like to overlook logic to make their point.
I can't see this happening (not arguing with you at all, this is just my pessimism). The ACC, even a reconstituted version of itself, would still have many of the schools that didn't want/fight for UConn, or rather distanced themselves from UConn when the cowards left the Big East. The ACC doesn't want anything to do with us. As for ND, I'm still ticked off how they used their affiliation with the Big East and dropped the conference. There's an reddit thread from 2 years ago that shows some Big East faithful would welcome ND back into the fold. Still, I don't see them walking back.
If we actually start to suck after Geno no one will care about the women anymore. And if no one cares then it won't make money. And if it doesn't make money then the school won't care either.
I have no clue what Turasi's plans are going forward, but if a gun was put to my head as to who could run a program like Geno did, she'd be my answer. I think she could actually make practice more brutal than Geno did
Eh, if the talent was all that decent, one of those guys would have shown something when they went elsewhere.
Berube
100%. She would be my pick as well. If you can get Princeton into the rankings, that works for me.
Disagree. That COVID year was Geno's worst team since Lobo. It kept their Final Four streak intact. If they had a tournament that year, they wouldn't have made it to the 2nd weekend. Recruiting dried up and he had to go overseas for players. But everything was back to normal when they rejoined the Big East.
That's a compelling argument. Is it the best you can do?
This is false. When UConn was in the AAC, Geno recruited the #1 player 3 times in 2015, 2017, and 2018. Here were the classes from 2014 to 2018:
Not doing his job was what "handicapped" Ollie.
The Current Big East is probably weaker in women’s BB than the AAC that we played in .
Yep. And the current AAC is basically CUSA 2.0
