Six tasks the Big East must complete to be the best basketball conference again

[Travelman6]

Six tasks the Big East must complete to be the best basketball conference again

6) Expansion must happen
And justice will be served if Old Big East teams come crawling back.

We are looking at you Connecticut.

Obviously, we have no idea if that would happen but if it is possible the Big East needs to jump all over it. A number of Big East teams have fallen on hard times since leaving the conference.

Schools like UCONN, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, USF and even Syracuse have taken big steps back since leaving the Big East. If the Big East had some of those teams or other notable programs come into the fold, it can only help the conference.

Of course, football will come into play and it wouldn’t be surprising if the Big East would want to think twice before going down that road again. However, if a school that relies heavily on basketball were to come to the table and happened to have a football team as well it would be hard for the Big East not to entertain adding them.

Certainly, seeing old teams come back to the new Big East would validate what the conference has done in recent seasons and show the relevance of an all-basketball school league in college athletics.

This will take time and needs to be done right but for this conference to reach the top and last long-term, expansion in some form must happen.

 

[upstater]

I too believe Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers and Louisville should give up their $40m a year for a lucrative $3.8m payout.

 

[Woof 101]

Six tasks the Big East must complete to be the best basketball conference again

6) Expansion must happen
And justice will be served if Old Big East teams come crawling back.

We are looking at you Connecticut.

Obviously, we have no idea if that would happen but if it is possible the Big East needs to jump all over it. A number of Big East teams have fallen on hard times since leaving the conference.

Schools like UCONN, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, USF and even Syracuse have taken big steps back since leaving the Big East. If the Big East had some of those teams or other notable programs come into the fold, it can only help the conference.

Of course, football will come into play and it wouldn’t be surprising if the Big East would want to think twice before going down that road again. However, if a school that relies heavily on basketball were to come to the table and happened to have a football team as well it would be hard for the Big East not to entertain adding them.

Certainly, seeing old teams come back to the new Big East would validate what the conference has done in recent seasons and show the relevance of an all-basketball school league in college athletics.

This will take time and needs to be done right but for this conference to reach the top and last long-term, expansion in some form must happen.

No attack Travelman32 ...but this is something of a 5th grade blogging dreamer....To say Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Syracuse would give up the conference they are in is simply childish. The writer is a BE dreamer wanting what was and will never again be. Everyone got what they wanted except UConn & Cincy......

 

[Marty Jackson]

F U C K the Big East.
I want nothing to do with the league, the schools, or the name. It's a glorious part of Uconn past. That's where it stays.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I’d rejoin just to beat SJU by 50.

 

[Travelman6]

No attack Travelman32 ...but this is something of a 5th grade blogging dreamer....To say Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Syracuse would give up the conference they are in is simply childish. The writer is a BE dreamer wanting what was and will never again be. Everyone got what they wanted except UConn & Cincy.

oh, I do not care! I just posted it to elicit a discussion. Personally I am in the middle. Though the comments about cuse, pitt, etc. was freakin insane.

 

[UC313]

I’d rejoin just to beat SJU by 50.

And get into a good old fashioned fist fight.

 

[Danzz]

What makes anyone think that the BE would want us? They are doing just fine without former BE schools who don't fit their model.

 

[Hoophound]

UConn is a major piece of Big East history and a national program. The Big East getting its biggest fish of the last 25 years back would be a big deal. Seton Hall and SJU don’t hold down the fort in NYC. SJU just doesn’t have the brand power left to become what it once was in the city. It would also strengthen the argument that any split the P5 might make from the G5 should include the Big East for basketball. Hard to exclude the 4 time national champs and Villanova at the same time.

 

[XStorrsion]

Would seem that realistic BE expansion candidates would be Dayton, Richmond, St. Louis, Davidson, and Denver... Does that really make the conference more money? I assume not since the conference hasn't brought any of them in.