Nobody believes any of this crap; well one person keeps attempting to claim there is a rivalry where no rivalry exists......
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I know.Now StJ does
So if DePaul starts being good again for the first time since Terry Cummings left for the NBA we will be rivals we ith them?
If DePaul hires a Hof coach, moved to within 2.5 hours, had an arena that we claimed as ours, had a massive backer to build talented teams, had 40 years of league history with us where they were once the dominant team, yeah they would.
Past over indexers, what does that even mean? We're not UCLA or Indiana. We have national title winning players on the current roster.
Past meaning we need this longstanding historic winner to qualify as our rival. As if they aren’t good enough to meet our standards. Rivals aren’t one size fits all. In the current they 1000% a rival.
Was Louisville our rival back in the good old days?
Not really, as we had other teams considered rivals in that time frame. They’re also not local or a historic BE team. It’s hard to call multiple teams your rival, and we had Cuse/Pitt in that period.
Lol, Rothstein is a puffer. He blows a lot of smoke about a lot of things.
Not sure there is a more knowledgeable college hoops guy out there. You call it puff I call it passionate, borderline nuts.
Give a listen to his team by team reports as the season starts up next. He puffs every team up. That's just his brand. So it's no surprise. He uses hyperbole about what should be some good games next year.
I recall him being pretty critical of us after seeing a summer practice last year. I’m not sure I call it hyperbole as much as he focuses on the good stuff.
You’re making assumptions here. Pitino probably has 4-5 years with Repole behind him and NYC/MSG, and he’ll build that brand up to the point where they should have great momentum and be able to attract a solid coach. As we saw with Nova, you’re only as good as your coach. Where would we be without Hurley? Sure they may drop back down, but also a decent chance they maintain form with the right coach. Of all the conference teams, they easily have the best chance of maintaining rivalry status. Shaka is on a descending pattern with his ignorance to the portal, McDermott already has his successor flagged, both are also non historic mid west BE teams. I’m not a buyer of Willard. I’d embrace it, makes sports so much better and brings eyes to the BE.
I don't think Creighton is going anywhere, McDermott created a really good program, they have the resources, and a rabid fanbase. Willard will make Nova good again. Not sure they'll be championship level under him but the guy can recruit and Nova has all the resources and the fanbase. Shaka better snap out of it, he's going against the tide and it's not going to work out for him unless he changes.
There hasn't been a problem getting our road matchups against St John's at the Garden. I'll wager heavily that it's been far more than thirty years since we played a game at Carnesecca. We don't need anything from them.
They had momentum when Louie retired. Look around the landscape in our conference and every other conference. Finding a quality replacement is not easy. I can list a ton of schools (starting with St John's) that failed miserably, more than once.
Did NIL exist back then? Did Mike Repole matter then? I think you’re missing a key variable. They’ll be able to attract a top coach if that coach knows he can buy a great roster. I agree anything behind Pitino will be a drop, but StJ will also be well positioned to attract a good coach. In that same time frame Hurley could be off to the NBA. Nothing in the future is guaranteed.
The bolded part is the first correct thing that you've written in a while.
lol - ok dude. Go to bed. Doofus’ like you is what makes this board a pile of tribal nonsense. Have you actually ever played a sport?
LOL.
Not really. When KO was coach they pretty much kicked our a$$es. Pitino full court pressure and Peyton Siva driving right down the lane. Very bad memories.