We were the absolute dregs of the BE for the last decade of the BE. Cooley improved the squad tremendously before the split. To say we weren’t better but everyone else was worse in the new conference is just bullspit and Nadav knows that.
People being mean to Providence on a message board is going to sink the Big East? That's silly, but if it were true it would say more about the Big East than the Boneyard.
Soccer is harmed. That's the only one.
Yeah I am leaning more towards us being used as leverage to get the Pac schools on board. I feel like the longer this goes on without an invite, the worse it gets for us. Once Arizona and ASU see that their options are FOX/ESPN with the B12, or behind an Apple TV paywall, they will make the move.
We all are. But it's more fun being hopeful. I was out to campus for a few games this spring. I loved how all the new sports facilities looked. And I'm thinking, considering the deficits the AD is running; how did UConn get the wherewithall to build all of these things at once? Then you hear that one of the reasons for the first rejection was the state of the facilities other than BB and FB. Hey look, we're being reconsidered all of a sudden!
Agree except for the MTEs. We are sought after as the Big East representative for the best of the MTEs. We would still be sought after but the Big 12 provides more competition to getting in those top flight tourneys
Back before the split, when BE had like 30 teams, weren’t there specific programs (top 25) that were assured to play each other, regardless of the rotation. As a result with UConn being a top program at the time, we always had home and home with the other elite teams.
Agreed. And I think that Yormark wouldn't suposedly meet with us twice in two different locations in the span of a week or two if he didn't have very strong vibes or even pre-approval from B12 presidents.
No offense to the creator, but I think that’s a terrible T-shirt and I’d feel like an idiot wearing it. It’s obnoxious.
Exactly. You have to treat this like news about recruiting a particular player. It makes for good copy and people love to write about in articles and forums (hell, 61 pages here) and such and I get that and have no problem with that.
Soccer needs to get their act together regardless of what conference we're in.
That's pretty much been the providence mindset on the big east from day one. It's always been a tool to advance their narrow goals of having a place for their small private college to play basketball. That mindset that greatly contributed to to the demise of the original big east, in my opinion.
Coincidentally, I think a future B1G move would complicate MTE scheduling because we are on the same MTE schedule as Michigan State. We're always in the Maui Invitational or Bahamas together
That's sort of true. I think it's more fair to say that expansion was rejected as a whole, at that time. But, yeah, that whole very public process left a bad taste in my mouth as well.
I agree, and most of it is reactionary to people saying that the Big East is the perfect situation for us, it clearly is not. Particularly on Twitter, that hyperbole gets responded to by opposite hyperbole and it just escalates.
The reality is, we’re likely not going anywhere.
My instinct tells me that this is what is going on. If Yormark weren't using us to put pressure on others, the courtship would have been much more secret.
