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No we didn't. The American is the conference formerly known as the Big East. We just sold the name to the Catholic 7.
So we sold the naming rights but not our soul, is how you view it. Some would say that’s not a valid distinction. I know the transaction and it’s inescapable we are no longer in the Big East. It’s semantics how we exited.
 
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I'm an outsider here but by my reasoning The Big East, if you can call it that left UCONN. Throw in USF and Cincy as well. The last remaining football members got left on the curb when The C7 cut and ran. The name no longer carried value for what would be an entirely new conference. Especially one with half its members nowhere near the east coast.
 
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......This scandal could be the piece that make the college presidents say there is too much money for the NCAA to be running things and we are creating an alternative.......


I think that is a distinct possibility. Major college athletics will become minor league football and basketball. And it will be terrible.
 
By what definition did UConn leave the Big East. The fact that UConn is not in the conference currently using that name doesn't mean UConn left them.
Further the NCAA considers the AAC as the continuation of the BIG EAST and the current BE as the "new" league. Love them or hate them the NCAA is the keeper of the record.
 
So we sold the naming rights but not our soul, is how you view it. Some would say that’s not a valid distinction. I know the transaction and it’s inescapable we are no longer in the Big East. It’s semantics how we exited.
No, I would view it as we sold naming rights. We kept things like NCAA rights etc.
 
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That was a huge mistake. The casual fan would think much more highly of the American if it was called the Big East.
The AAC needed cash and looking at the locations of the schools currently in the league "The American" is a better suited name. Plus I always liked that the AAC was kind of a dig at the ACC and will always be added ahead of the ACC when conference lists are in alphabetical order.
 


No way the people involved come clean. It's not in their DNA. All they know is deny, deny. They still think its some silly NCAA rule. Even people on audio and/or video are going to deny. What a wonderful world we live in. I call this basketball privilege. I've seen this in AAU circles.
 
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Lol because Cuse won't be under federal investigation in a couple months? Gonna be a rough winter for him

Hey man, if it turns out that this shoe-money-to-players thing has been business-as-usual throughout the hoops landscape then the vast majority of P5 schools are gonna get whacked. And even though the AAC isn't technically considered P5, UConn is as big a player as anyone. As a Syracuse alum I'm not holding my breath that the Orange are completely clean and my advice to you guys would be the same.
 
So we sold the naming rights but not our soul, is how you view it. Some would say that’s not a valid distinction. I know the transaction and it’s inescapable we are no longer in the Big East. It’s semantics how we exited.
I am either not smart enough or dumb enough to figure your post out.
The former

Just had this conversation with a Nova grad who, trust me, runs intellectual circles around you.
 
You would think Miami already has a leg up on the competition by being an ACC school on the Florida coast. Apparently that's not enough.
 
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Shalala is gone. She was not a friend of the athletic dept there except for welcoming booster Nevin Shapiro w open arms.

Miami U basketball has been shady for a long time. Remember Durand Scott a 5-star SG from Kemba's HS who picked them over us. We got Lamb so no sour grapes.
 
You do realize that their academic reputation is excellent. Right?
This is absolutely true. FSU is the Louisville of the Big 3 in terms of academics down here. Florida is very good as well.
 
Hey man, if it turns out that this shoe-money-to-players thing has been business-as-usual throughout the hoops landscape then the vast majority of P5 schools are gonna get whacked. And even though the AAC isn't technically considered P5, UConn is as big a player as anyone. As a Syracuse alum I'm not holding my breath that the Orange are completely clean and my advice to you guys would be the same.

That's a fair response, and there is a small part of me that has some mild concern things don't turn out roses for us. But I am not sweating anything at this point.

During the Ollie era, we have swung and missed on countless top 25 recruits, after seemingly coming very close or having a leg up on schools that ended up winning out despite no real connection or explainable reasoning. Calhoun may have some skeletons in the closet, but nothing that even comes close to this.

Here is what you need to worry about:
1) Bazley, a 5 star prospect flips to Syracuse seemingly out of the blue from Ohio State, a school that just fired their head coach for losing out on 5 star prospects in the same way Ollie does, apparently not willing to pay the game.

2) Andy Miller's computer just got raided and is the target of an FBI investigation. Notable clients: Malachi Richardson, Rakeem Christmas, and Chris McCullough, all of whom had a cup of coffee in that hell hole on their way to early entry and this ASM agency.

I don't think either of those situations turn out the way you hope. And oh by the way, Syracuse is already on probation...
 
So a school which is on probabtion, is "eligible" for the death penalty if they are caught up in this scheme? If this is correct, would Miami also be looking at the death penalty?

I think Ville is dead, the NCAA needs to show some teeth here, but there could be more than 1 school in trouble. If my school was on probation, like Cuse, I'd be very worried.
 
So we sold the naming rights but not our soul, is how you view it. Some would say that’s not a valid distinction. I know the transaction and it’s inescapable we are no longer in the Big East. It’s semantics how we exited.

No, we really did not exit anything.

We stayed exactly in place because there was no other place for us.

The scenery changed, we didn't.
 
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