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FriarJ said:
F'Yeah we left that trash of a conference and if the BE played football so would you. I'm damn glad we left. I could care less that some bar in Florida does not have FS1 up on their screens, or some casual fan instantly turns on ESPN. I live in Seattle and I get to watch EVERY PC game on TV without buying a special college basketball package or firing up my laptop. BE ratings are up 60% over last year and if the teams can perform in March they will be higher. The BE's future is bright, and recruiting backs this up. PC is in a league that with a little luck they can challenge for the title year after year and make the NCAA's.

Let me say this so I'm clear. Neither I nor any of the other PC fans miss not seeing any of our non-conference games on ESPN, nor the 2-3 times we managed to make it to ESPN2 or U.
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Do you realize how arrogant this sounds? Where does that arrogance come from?

UCF and Tulsa have more NCAA appearances than Providence does in the last 20 years. USF has more tournament wins! And you want to talk about how you didn't get enough coverage?

You.
Didn't.
Deserve.
It.
 
FriarJ said:
F'Yeah we left that trash of a conference and if the BE played football so would you. I'm damn glad we left. I could care less that some bar in Florida does not have FS1 up on their screens, or some casual fan instantly turns on ESPN. I live in Seattle and I get to watch EVERY PC game on TV without buying a special college basketball package or firing up my laptop. BE ratings are up 60% over last year and if the teams can perform in March they will be higher. The BE's future is bright, and recruiting backs this up. PC is in a league that with a little luck they can challenge for the title year after year and make the NCAA's.

Let me say this so I'm clear. Neither I nor any of the other PC fans miss not seeing any of our non-conference games on ESPN, nor the 2-3 times we managed to make it to ESPN2 or U.
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PC's game Saturday is not on in Boston and I have the added comcast "sports package". The same can be said for every PC game not on FS1 or Fox which is a lot of them.

Oh and 3 classes in the top 40 is not exactly killing it as a whole, especially when the SEC has 8, American has 4, and PAC 10 has 6.
 
zls44 said:
Do you realize how arrogant this sounds? Where does that arrogance come from?

UCF and Tulsa have more NCAA appearances than Providence does in the last 20 years. USF has more tournament wins! And you want to talk about how you didn't get enough coverage?

You.
Didn't.
Deserve.
It.
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Wholly crap, you spend numerous posts trashing us, the conference the, network... I could care less what it sounds like. None of the schools in that conference we should have "stayed" in according to you have anything in common with the C7. We don't play football! We never will! The BE schools have an even playing field and the setup of the round robin schedule is perfect. You chose football and you get to keep all those $$$ all to yourselves. BE has a shot at 7 schools out of 10 dancing this year. So yes, I'm glad we are not playing Southeastern Carolina and its 300 RPI in front of 75 fans on espn3.
 
Jerry1714 said:
PC's game Saturday is not on in Boston and I have the added comcast "sports package". The same can be said for every PC game not on FS1 or Fox which is a lot of them.

Oh and 3 classes in the top 40 is not exactly killing it as a whole, especially when the SEC has 8, American has 4, and PAC 10 has 6.
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You don't get Yes? You need to change to directv. That game is 8 channels on my set.
 
FriarJ said:
You don't get Yes? You need to change to directv. That game is 8 channels on my set.
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I do not get YES.

Also, I am not a PC fan so I do not need to get Directv to find my team play.
 
Jerry1714 said:
PC's game Saturday is not on in Boston and I have the added comcast "sports package". The same can be said for every PC game not on FS1 or Fox which is a lot of them.

Oh and 3 classes in the top 40 is not exactly killing it as a whole, especially when the SEC has 8, American has 4, and PAC 10 has 6.
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Wait! Three? That's less than four, isn't it?

I thought being stuck in THE WURST CONFERENCE EVAR as opposed to ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY BIG EAST would prevent such a thing from occuring!

FETCH ME MY FAINTING COUCH!
 
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Its going to take a while before Fox College Hoops picks up better ratings. ESPN is ingrained on the average sports fans' mind and its going to take a lot of work and good programming to convince people to watch Fox Sports 1. Big East alone is clearly not enough. Its hard to compete against the ESPN, ABCs, and CBSs of the World. They got some good contracts coming up their way (FIFA and MLS Soccer) but they need more.

Competition is good, and we are the winners in all of this. I think having more role players in CBB than ESPN/Disney is good for the sport
 
seanmc94 said:
I'm sorry if the truth hurts; but we are dealing with THIS year. The thread is about ratings and performance THIS year. If we are talking last 20 years; I'd trade with UConn in a second. THIS year? I wouldn't trade you a bucket of warm piss for your season.
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It seems like a bucket of warm piss is something you should really be trying to get rid of, so I think you should make that trade, even if our season isn't so great thus far. Even someone offering to just take the bucket of warm piss without giving you anything in return seems like a great deal for you. Why do you have these buckets of warm piss? Is it like a hoarders situation?
 
Sean and Friar J have no right to be making fun of any program in the AAC let alone schools with better basketball tradition (half the league), or schools with 10 times the fan base like ECU. What don't you guys understand about having "the lowest audience EVER for college basketball on broadcast television?" No one in America cares about your crap program so stop posting here.
 
It's comedic that our women's team probably drew about 100x the viewing audience of a mens Big East team.
 
Seriously?

We win the National Championship & lose 4 solid guys. Including (all due respect to McDermott) the most clutch & valuable player in College Hoop ... And you're saying we should feel bad for this season? We've won 4 in 16. There's a whole NBE league that would be backflipping for a FF slot.

We are developing OUR next National Champion. We can legitimately say that. You ... and your ilk ... would be laughed at for that kind of statement.
 
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Keep taking pot shots at the NBE. 4 teams ranked higher than the top AAC team in the RPI. You better keep that solid ooc schedule; bc the opportunity for quality opponents ends when the conference slate starts.

Nbe is ranked 2; AAC is 9.
 
This is an awkward thread because I think these guys think they are on the women's board? They can't possibly still be here thinking they have a men's program which could even be int he same discussion with ours can they? I mean how embarrassed do you need to get before you actually just stay away for a while. You're here guys, the UConn board we're not over there with Richard C and crew wondering when the next Jimmy Walker or Ernie D is coming to PC. We could care less, get it, don't care who you are or what league you play in. You are Not national - you are URI, UMass, Bryant - not UConn. Now please go crochet a hat for Ed Cooley will ya.
 
seanmc94 said:
Keep taking pot shots at the NBE. 4 teams ranked higher than the top AAC team in the RPI. You better keep that solid ooc schedule; bc the opportunity for quality opponents ends when the conference slate starts.

Nbe is ranked 2; AAC is 9.
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You still here? Why, seriously just why?
 
seanmc94 said:
you guys are the basketball version of the girl who leaves her husband and then continues to obsess about him. The NBE is fine without UConn. I'm sure you are fine with your new rivalries with East Carolina, Tulane and Central Florida. Move along.
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Speaking of "move along", didn't you say a couple years ago that if UConn went back to kicking ass in 2014 you would stay off the boneyard for a year?
Maybe you should honor your word.
 
The Viking said:
Didn't you say a couple years ago that if UConn went back to kicking ass in 2014 you would stay off the boneyard for a year?
Maybe you should honor your word.
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He's not just a fan Vike he went to PC. He believes it's been a year when January 1 hits.
 
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I would pull up the thread where he said it but I don't want people to think Niels Giffey is back with the team and just fractured his finger again.
 
Maybe it is not the quality of the opponents. Perhaps people are just getting short on bandwidth. Too much noise ‘out there’.
 
Inyatkin said:
I love going into Gampel and looking up at all those banners listing our conference RPI over the years. So many memories.
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I like the 2011 banner celebrating that the OBE got 11 teams in the tournament. Because that's what I think we all remember most from that season - the record 11 teams. What a great conference. So happy to be a part of such shared excellence.
 
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FriarJ said:
you would know
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Know what I find funny FriarJ? That people on the Providence board are defending their horrible rating because it was the day BEFORE the Superbowl:

We played SJU at noon on the day before the SuperBowl. Each supermarket I shopped at was mobbed. It was a time when you had to decide what was most important, i.e. getting food and booze for the big game.

Our SJU/NYS game just had unfortunate timing.


But are making fun of UConn drawing in TEXAS, a few hours before the Superbowl started. I still think UConns game wasn't the worst rated in history however.
 
@FriarJ Has a point, if the BE (C7) played D1 football, UConn would likely be in that group.

@seanmc94 I'd wait until the year ends before bragging about this year, I assumed PC was having a great year by how you were bragging, and looked it up. losses to Brown and BC? Really? Wait and see before bragging, Jeesh.
 
seanmc94 said:
Keep taking pot shots at the NBE. 4 teams ranked higher than the top AAC team in the RPI. You better keep that solid ooc schedule; bc the opportunity for quality opponents ends when the conference slate starts.

Nbe is ranked 2; AAC is 9.
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I guess we'll find out in a month or so how good our conferences really are. The NBE certainly has the perfect profile to exploit the flaws in the RPI formula. It will be interesting to see if those teams can win games when it counts.
 
Inyatkin said:
I love going into Gampel and looking up at all those banners listing our conference RPI over the years. So many memories.
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Just because ZLS is a UConn fan and the Providence interloper is not, does not mean we have to jump off the same silly bridge ZLS jumps off every time one of these threads pops up. We are in a southern mid-major conference with a bunch of schools no casual UConn fan cares about and we make less than 50% on our conference TV contract (despite having a football program) than PC makes on its conference TV contract. Arguing that we are better off playing USF and UCF and Tulane instead of northern schools that we played for over 30 years that have Final Four banners is a silly argument every time ZLS makes it.

The only reason that the American is not CUSA when it comes to basketball is UConn, and this awful league is dragging us down while ZLS blows kisses in every thread to the network that got us here.
 
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