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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2492539, member: 199"] I think the AAC has decent coaching, the problem being recruiting, and that is not easy to solve. We sing the praises of the old BE but the really old big east was not very good. Uconn elevated their play in 91, but no one else was making much noise nationally through the 90s from the BE. CViv and Rutgers joined and we all laughed at the 'Jewel of the East' until the early 2000s when they had a few really competitive years with Cappie, Matee, and co. and then they slid into irrelevance again. ND came in and they had one run with Ruth in 2001 but disappeared again for about 7 years. In the last 20 years of the big east Uconn had 18 total losses in conference regular season and 9 undefeated seasons. And they were tourney champions 16 of the last 20 years. It was only the last few years of the full conference when the BE was getting 7-9 teams into the NCAAs. Before that TN fans were always disparaging our SOS :eek::rolleyes::). [/QUOTE]