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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 4121169, member: 7492"] This thread has garnered a lot of interesting discussion with most of it being pretty good. Let me crystallize some of my thoughts and take-aways with some of these posts. 1. As Val Ackerman had said, the Big East is a basketball conference and as such it was my belief that would also apply to WCBB in the conference in terms of better programs, better recruiting, better pay to keep the coaches and result in more bids. I still have hopes that will happen. 2. UConn has always tried to play top Teams in OOC, but since the OBE they have to rely on these games to get better competition. Having the NBE get better is not about UConn needing them to be able to win NCs or compete for NCs at least while Geno is here, but to improve the league and help the program down the line after Geno. 3. As I noted in another thread, Football and MCBB are the only sports that make money and even he mighty SEC with all their football money, have only the minimum or just slightly above the minimum number of men’s and women’s sports. P5 schools reinvest all that money back into Football and MCBB with a side dish of money for other selected sports like salaries for WCBB. For the Big East to be really a true CBB conference, both men’s and womens programs need national success in recruiting, games won against P5, better pay for the quality Womens coaches in the league and better NCAAT results. It happened for the MCBB and we hope it will happen for the women and only time will tell. A major boost of success would be Marquette paying Duffy more money to stay. Hopefully Denise Dillon can keep improving upon her success last year and likewise make Villanova a top Big East program. After those two though, the conference is void of any young and talented coaching. Both Doug and Geno are in the tail ends of the careers. That’s it as far as I am concerned for upside. [/QUOTE]

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