Tranghese Speaks

[jostar1]

“The Big East has never done really anything wrong other than it never had powerful football schools and it has paid a heavy price,” said Tranghese. “What makes me even sadder is that there are some schools ou there who have done very little to contribute anything and they are getting rewarded. And there are some schools who have done nothing wrong and they are getting punished simply for being in the wrong place. That concept is hard for me to grasp.”


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[husky91]

This guy's a clown. When future was changing he guessed wrong. He's the BlackBerry/RIMM, in vogue for a short while, but a bad guess for the long term.

“The Big East has never done really anything wrong other than it never had powerful football schools and it has paid a heavy price,” said Tranghese. “What makes me even sadder is that there are some schools ou there who have done very little to contribute anything and they are getting rewarded. And there are some schools who have done nothing wrong and they are getting punished simply for being in the wrong place. That concept is hard for me to grasp.”


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[UConnJim]

BE did no wrong? Why was Penn State rejected for membership? Why did it take so long to offer full membership to the football schools? Why didn't he break the BE into two and build up the all sports side by adding Louisville and Cincy? Why was ND allowed to be a leach?

As for freeloaders, what has Seton Hall, Providence, and St. John's done for the BE in years?

 

[2Infinity]

“The Big East has never done really anything wrong other than it never had powerful football schools and it has paid a heavy price,” said Tranghese.

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Hmmm..last I knew Miami, while a member of the BE, won the national championship in 2001. They were perennial national title contenders year in and year out as well. Did Mike not know this?? Maybe this was part of the problem!!

 

[LRock34]

“The Big East has never done really anything wrong other than it never had powerful football schools and it has paid a heavy price,” said Tranghese. “What makes me even sadder is that there are some schools ou there who have done very little to contribute anything and they are getting rewarded. And there are some schools who have done nothing wrong and they are getting punished simply for being in the wrong place. That concept is hard for me to grasp.”


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Years later this guy is still clueless, why do people still ask him anything. So Miami wasn't a power when we were raided the first time. VT wasn't a power? SU and WVU didn't have years of bowl appearances and wins? The problem with his Big East was a basketball conference that handcuffed the football schools. Something he created and supported. Crawl back under your rock Geese, much of this is on you!

 

[junglehusky]

He says he wanted to do the split but the presidents did not. I know it's fun to beat a dead horse but the people criticizing the presidents are more on target IMHO. Now Herbst has to act in UConn's best interest first and foremost because of the behavior of previous presidents (at UConn but more everywhere else).

 

[UConnJim]

Tranghese wanted to give BE football to the ACC, but the ACC said no and later just took the schools.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

He says he wanted to do the split but the presidents did not. I know it's fun to beat a dead horse but the people criticizing the presidents are more on target IMHO. Now Herbst has to act in UConn's best interest first and foremost because of the behavior of previous presidents (at UConn but more everywhere else).

He said that? Talk about revisionist history.

When the first raid was going down he (as BE president) held the top seat in the BCS. After making it clear to the remaining BE schools (who wanted to split) that he would resign if the conference split and if he wasn't on the BCS committee, convincing the other power conferences that the BE was still a major conference, both sides of the split conferences would immediately become mid majors.

He did more to keep the conference from splitting than anyone.

 

[upstater]

I wonder what schools he is referring to as being contributors while others were takers.

 

[UConnJim]

He represented Providence College first.

 

[LRock34]

He says he wanted to do the split but the presidents did not. I know it's fun to beat a dead horse but the people criticizing the presidents are more on target IMHO. Now Herbst has to act in UConn's best interest first and foremost because of the behavior of previous presidents (at UConn but more everywhere else).

So it was the ACC Presidents that wanted to expand back in 2004 and again in 2011? It was the Big 10 Presidents that decided to add Maryland and RU? No, the decisions were made by commissioners with vision. Commissioners that sold their vision to their Presidents. The goose was nothing more than a basketball manager doing what he could to protect the Catholics. Every move he ever made was to protect the basketball schools including the formation of the 1st BE football conference. If he cared about football of had a clue he never would have allowed Penn State to be turned down and he would have prevented the first ACC raid by plucking FSU from the ACC when he had the chance.

 

[UConnJim]

In the article, Tranghese said he saw a presentation by the SEC commissioner in 1990 in which he predicted 4 or 5 super conferences and Tranghese said he walked out of the presentation and thought the SEC commish was "out of his mind". In other words, he didn't see the changes coming in college sports.

 

[CL82]

“The Big East has never done really anything wrong other than it never had powerful football schools and it has paid a heavy price,” said Tranghese. “What makes me even sadder is that there are some schools ou there who have done very little to contribute anything and they are getting rewarded. And there are some schools who have done nothing wrong and they are getting punished simply for being in the wrong place. That concept is hard for me to grasp.”


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Here's something for grasp...a big can of STFU!
balloon knot, it was bad enough dealing with you when you were relevant. Just STFU.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

In the article, Tranghese said he saw a presentation by the SEC commissioner in 1990 in which he predicted 4 or 5 super conferences and Tranghese said he walked out of the presentation and thought the SEC commish was "out of his mind". In other words, he didn't see the changes coming in college sports.

I'm guessing that it was an intentional form a blindness, caused by the fact that he refused to look at a potential scenario where a handful of small, private schools in the northeast who did not play football were not part of the big boys table.

MT is the guy who received a select invitation to view a pre-launch presentation of flash drives and then went out and invested all of his money in floppy disks.

 

[freescooter]

The thing that Tranghese never got was the importance of football in its own right. He always saw it as something he needed to keep his basketball league together. Never as something that should be nurtured and grown on its own. The big East added football to keep the schools that played football from leaving. But it never tried to expand or upgrade the league. After the first ACC raid, the Big East added 3 football schools, but 2 had hoop pedigrees and then they added 2 basketball schools as well. Again, the motivation wasn't to build a football league, it was to preserve the basketball league. And again, the league did little to fight for expansion or growth. They tried to add TCU finally, but that was offset by trying to cut a deal to get Villanova to upgrade, despite the fact that Villanova had no usable stadium and little hope of getting one. In the end, neither Mike nor his acolyte Marinatto could see beyond the idea of the Big East as a basketball conference.

 

[BlueMAB]

I wonder what schools he is referring to as being contributors while others were takers.

My $ is on Rutgers being the one rewarded while not contributing.

 

[mattp]

My $ is on Rutgers being the one rewarded while not contributing.

i think both Rutgers and Maryland fall into this category. I find the addition of Maryland even more puzzling. Neither has really done anything of note with consistency on the field. I guess they add the DC market, but obviously that's not nearly as important as the NYC market.