(03-17-2014 08:19 PM)gosports1 Wrote: (03-17-2014 06:27 PM)nzmorange Wrote: (03-16-2014 09:11 PM)gosports1 Wrote: (03-16-2014 04:41 PM)nzmorange Wrote: (03-14-2014 06:46 PM)gosports1 Wrote: at least providence beat BC this year.
i understand that
Do you mean like this?
http://espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=400502790
And while we're on the topic of common opponents, how did the 'Nova games go for you? We beat them by 16.
why so angry? im sure having a team like BC handing syracuse its first loss, must have really stung...
I'm sure getting decimated by Nova to the tune of 33 points stung, too...
...and losing the revenge game probably didn't feel good, either.
Also, for the record, if I was angry, I would have brought up the Friar's record against the Orange (or the last time we played).
No one expected PC to beat Villanova, Everyone expected Cuse to beat BC. id be the 1st to admit how much syracuse has dominated PC over the years. Not even close. I was busting your balls because you took an unprovoked shot about "a providence fan not being able to understand" or some such nonsense.
You also attempted to provoke people by your OP about worse case scenarios. Why bother with a conference you have no ties to anymore?
I suspect had the so called "names" of the BE made it to semifinals that you(or some one like you) would post about how the doomed the BE is, because "depaul, seton hall and providence can t even win in a watered down BE" and that Villanova Georgetown and St johns will rule etc etc.
Just my 2 cents
1. You seem ridiculously over-sensitive. I didn't take a shot at the BIG EAST, and I didn't try to provoke anything but conversation. Nowhere in any of my posts did I slight the BIG EAST in any way, shape or form. I simply pointed out something that I felt was a fact, and had virtually nothing to do with the overall viability of the conference. Notice how I responded to the second poster who felt that the BIG EAST was doomed to fail by saying "IF the BIG EAST fails..." The key word of that is the "if," which I put in caps and underlined.
Heck, I pointed out that the conference could still reverse it's fortunes in the NCAA tourney. And, while we're on the topic, I even ended my initial post with something along the lines of "maybe next year...," signifying that I genuinely hope to see two Big East powers slugging it out in the championship game like old times. If you're still not convinced, "GU, VU, STJ, SH, Prov., are all great rivalries, and DePaul, Marquette, Creighton, and Butler all have the potential to create an interesting group of western rivals who have eastern ties" is an except of my second post. How in the world do you equate that with trying to provoke people?
2.I care about the BIG EAST because, although SU is no longer in the conference, Syracuse played an instrumental role in building it (even if this incarnation is technically the spiritual successor to the conference that we helped build, as opposed to the actual conference). It was once said that nowhere did the BIG EAST drum beat louder and clearer than Syracuse's campus, and that is absolutely true. Notice that, unlike Rutgers, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Boston College, Miami, and Virginia Tech, Syracuse has never been involved in litigation with the conference. Like 99.9% of SU fans, the BIG EAST will always have a special place in my heart. When I went to Syracuse, we held up the banner against those who felt that small privates like Georgetown and Villanova couldn't compete with the juggernauts of the ACC (i.e. UNC), and we held up the banner against those who felt that the northeast was a had been in the world of college football. The BIG EAST was as close to a true northern conference as I will ever get, so no, I did not trash it's spiritual successor, nor will I ever. I merely pointed out that things weren't going well. There's a HUGE difference. If you read my posts, you will notice that I said the same thing about the ACC after SU and UNC dropped, and the ACC is now my "home" conference.
3. My comment was a lighthearted jab at PC highlighting the friction between virtually any BIG EAST "classic" fan and PC for obvious reasons. I suppose that I could have said "you're missing the forest by focusing on the trees," in that you seemed to be focusing on the details of Prov's gain at the expense of the conference's greater loss.