Tranghese still at it, blaming the Big East's woes on everyone but himself

[husky8273]

In William Rhoden's article in today's NYT, Tranghese touts himself as the advocate to admit Penn State to Big East that was ignored.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/s...ot-embracing-football.html?ref=ncaabasketball

 

[Carl Spackler]

Should have never gone to vote on Penn State unless the commissioner of the league, was sure it would pass. That was on Gavitt. But Tranghese was there.

The people that wanted Penn State in, and Toner was one of them, were totally blindsided by that whole situation.

Funny how just under two decades of work and the track record that goes with it completely goes against everything you just said to the media Mike.

Anytime anyone hears Mike Tranghese talk about how he understood the importance of football in the athletic world....

Just realize that when Miami, VTech and BC left, they were REPLACED by Louisville, Cincinatti, and USF. Two historic basketball schools, and a program that hadn't played football at all prior to 1997.

THe league then EXPANDED......by adding Depaul and Marquette. Last football games played respectively in 1939 and 1960.

And this asshat is still in the NY Times talking to the media, and now he's talking about how he's understood that football is the financial power that the league should have recognized all along.

As said, I wish the guy would never speak in the media again.

 

[freescooter]

Either Mike tranghese never saw that the world was changing, or was never able to convince his members...I'm not sure which, but this piece, I think is a huge indictment of the Big East leadership. Unfortunate that the league didn't break up in 1991 instead of trying to add football too, I think.

 

[tzznandrew]

Either Mike tranghese never saw that the world was changing, or was never able to convince his members...I'm not sure which, but this piece, I think is a huge indictment of the Big East leadership. Unfortunate that the league didn't break up in 1991 instead of trying to add football too, I think.

For a UConn fan, though, they needed the league to stay together long enough for an upgrade.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Either Mike tranghese never saw that the world was changing, or was never able to convince his members...I'm not sure which, but this piece, I think is a huge indictment of the Big East leadership. Unfortunate that the league didn't break up in 1991 instead of trying to add football too, I think.

Not for us. We are lucky that the league didn't split in the early 1990s, and we are very lucky that the moves made to strengtheng the big east in the latter half of the 1990s involved extending football invites to upgrade to UConn and to Villanova.

Was it good for everybody else? Ummm...just look where we are now as a conferenc.e

Was it good for us? What the big east did/ has done? Hell yes. We've been loyal all along too, ironically, not because of understanding what the big east has trully provided for UConn, but because of our basketball interests.

And that's what needs to be understood, is that we made our own bed, a long, long time ago, by dumping our 50+ year athletic history and traditions and bolting for the big east, because of basketball.

Just like all these schools are dumping their own traditions now, all over the country, aroudn football, we did it ourselves around basketball 32 years ago. Karma has come back ten fold, and we've lost nearly every single 1-A football rivalry. But ti's ok. We will be just fine, because fans want to see UConn, for UConn.......doesn't matter who we play....fans will come because we are UConn. (don't get me wrong, big time football opponents bring all kinds of attention, but a fan base is not built on casual fans that come for the big time opponents.)

The big east, and all it's faults, and basketball, and Jim Calhoun's basketball program, is the entirely to thank for the fact that we are among the big boys now, as a major state university, and with great potential to really continue to grow, rather than in some quagmire of mess, much like has happened to Temple, and/or the profile/level of competition our former allied state universities are currently at.

among the many others along the eastern seaboard, that are currently struggling with the dying experiment that was 1-AA cost containment football.

The big east is to thank for it. I'm thankful. I"m also more than ever ready to look forward rather than back.