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Message: [QUOTE="Windsorlocks, post: 3434097, member: 5993"] It is weird, if you understand the history of the BE. The NBE was much closer to Gavitt's original vision for an Eastern basketball league. And, while some fans that prefer the AAC may not like it, the NBE also took the basketball history with them, along with the name. Which, despite the growth over time of the OBE, and the fact that OBE teams remained in the AAC as well, always seemed fair to me. Precisely because the new league did seem to be closer to its 1979 roots as envisioned by its founder, Dave Gavitt. It seems to me we are returning to the BE. I have always looked at the present BE as just the most recent edition of, are we ready, lol, the BE. It has the name, and the basketball history: "As part of our separation agreement, we negotiated that the basketball records will remain the property of the basketball schools," Providence president Fr. Brian Shanley said on a teleconference Wednesday. "The Big East will just keep going on, being the inheritor if you will, of the traditions and the records of the conference." [URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/03/20/new-big-east-rather-reminiscent-of-old-big-east/2003477/"]New Big East rather reminiscent of old Big East[/URL] [/QUOTE]