The Official Big East is Poverty Thread

[huskymedic]

 

[UConnDan97]

SMH at that article.

The football schools aren’t the ones who left. It was the Basketball schools. Specifically the Catholic 7.

It's amazing how many people have forgotten the fact that we kept the name because they left us, and then they had to pay us $25 million each (with USF and Cincy) for the right to be called "The Big East"...

 

[Kolumbo]

The conference has notably regressed since 2020 in its production of NCAA bids and in the conference rankins. But in the key formative first 5 year period (2014-18) the league did a great job sending over half of its team to the NCAAs.

For some reason that decline in the league coincides with the arrival of Connecticut. I wonder if the rise and dominance of UCONN has in a way adversely affected the rest of the league. Or maybe the cause of the decline is due to the national landscape (NIL, $$$, Football conference consolidation)?

Whatever it is I hope the next commissioner can successfully navigate the Big East through this difficult NIL/football-led era.

I don't expect the Big East to ever again be the #1 NET conference at this point. I think it would be extremely difficult for the league to pull that off and requires vast amount of resources. But I do hope the league can compete for that #3/#4 spot year after year which is still pretty darn good. I just don't want the league to be locked-in into the 5th spot.

UConn has had a very good run. It only lost 2 conference games in 2023-2024 so Big East bubble teams were certainly affected by UConn's success. I don't know if the NET rankings take those losses to UConn into account as much as they should, or if the Big East teams happened to drop off.

 

[DFW HOYA]

Not sure she deserves fan fare. Big East is still weak and its stature has fallen against other BB leagues. The league needs a visionary that can take advantage of the leagues assets, which Val did not do.

What assets are these?

 

[jostar1]

What assets are these?

UConn.

 

[superjohn]

Let’s be honest. It’s still poop.
3 bids to tourney with 2 in same region is not ‘Power’….
Anyone that thinks this league without UConn is vastly different from A-10 is delusional.
Sure Nova, G’Town and St Johns have history. But it’s not translating to today. Only St Johns is actively competing today.

Nova isn't actively competing today? They made a bad hire and now with their new coach they were back in the tournament in his first season and they have a top 10 transfer portal class for next season. Two of the last 10 national championships and another final 4 in 2022.

Did you throw dirt on UConn and bury them when they missed three straight tournaments and would've missed a fourth straight had Covid not cancelled the tournament?

 

[huskymedic]

 

[pepband99]

Hilarious. The WNBA is only barely "working" due to events after she left. The Big East is YTBD.