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Message: [QUOTE="Hoophound, post: 5296180, member: 271"] Learned college basketball fans consider the Big East a major basketball conference. The networks have continually referred to the Big East as a major basketball conference. This isn’t about Val being on par with Sankey. It’s about informing the public that the Big East is a big boy conference paying big boy money. If you don’t try to control that narrative, you are irresponsible. The image has to be kept up so that players and fans respect the Big East brand. Billybud is a perfect example of why this matters. He is saying nobody cares outside the Northeast. That’s not the issue. They may not care but they should know that when they lose a recruit to a Big East school, it’s because the Big East is legit. It pays well and it wins titles. If people start thinking we pay like a mid major well——-we all know perception is reality. Nobody cares about the SEC in the Northeast either. [/QUOTE]