The NEW BIg East Conference. It was formed in August 2013 when the Catholic 7 elected to split from the football schools and for a new league with 3 mid-majors. It bought the name from the original Big East (aka the Big East or the real Big East). which may have been the best basketball conference ever assembled at the collegiate level. Had 7 National Chsmpionships won by 5 different schools. Had multiple teams in the Final Four 5 times, had at least 1 Final Four team 18 times, and regularly had 6-8 teams in the Top 25. I mean how do you have half the league in the Top 25 when they have to play each other? One year, 1985, 3 of the Final Four were from the Big East. A fourth team lost in overtime in its Elite 8 game.
I appreciate & commend this straightforward answer to the simply posted question, "What is NEWBIE?"
Now, a follow up:
WHY do you use it?
As you can probably surmise, I dislike it, considering the name derisive toward UConn and unbecoming of a fan. I'll admit the likelihood that I'd feel differently if its centered arrogance was being aimed toward a rival, but it's not. I think its trolling tone draws excessive attention to the writer rather than the message, and in doing so it invites responses that match its bad energy with the intention of muting its effectiveness, which I believe is already compromised.
For better or worse, you generally give me more than enough to work with when I want to register my distaste for your commitment to being an aggravating presence. If I lessen the pleasure you derive by behaving boorishly, it's worth the effort.
I'm happy for the opportunity to identify & acknowledge the merits in your comment quoted above, although your continued silence in response to my challenge last March that you educate your fellow Boneyarders as to 50 D-1 coaches who are better than Dan Hurley stands - so far - as a more valuable contribution to this forum.
And so, I ask again, why do you persist with NEWBIE when sharing within a forum largely created by and for fans of its preeminent MBB & WBB programs?
I expect that you are capable of fashioning an understandable & reasoned argument, and I invite you to present one. Thanks in advance.
