(04-04-2016 11:32 PM)justinslot Wrote:  

(04-04-2016 11:10 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  My team is in the ACC but I was rooting for Villanova. I think this conference loyalty stuff is a bunch of horseshit.

Serious question: did you feel that way before Pitt went to the ACC?

Like, I grew up as a Seton Hall fan in the 80s and 90s and conference loyalty was always a big part of being for a BE team, because it was an upstart league. And our natural enemies were always the bluebloods in the ACC, who thought their basketball supremacy was a natural right or something.

As a Pitt fan, I certainly had much more loyalty to the Big East than I do to the ACC in basketball. However, in football I root for other ACC teams because I feel like it is unfairly disrespected.

Congrats Nova & go Big East!

(04-04-2016 10:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-04-2016 10:39 PM)ivet Wrote:  Congratulations to the Villanova Wildcats for being the 2016 NCAA National Champions!

Congratulations indeed! First you give them hope and let them back in and then you kill them. That's far more cruel! The thread should have been titled "The Revenge of the Big East".

Your EXACTLY spot on.

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(04-04-2016 10:58 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  You can call the Big East mid-major. You can say that the conference can't recruit (or survive) without ESPN and the football schools. You can say that no one watches us on Fox. You can make fun of the league for being all Catholic/Private. You can even say that the league is a shell of what it used to be.

But be sure to call the BIG EAST CHAMPIONS!

Way to go NOVA!

I think this run by Nova will quiet down the doubters of the Big East quite a lot. (Then again I wasn't one of the doubters to begin with.)

(04-05-2016 12:56 PM)brista21 Wrote:  

(04-04-2016 10:58 PM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  You can call the Big East mid-major. You can say that the conference can't recruit (or survive) without ESPN and the football schools. You can say that no one watches us on Fox. You can make fun of the league for being all Catholic/Private. You can even say that the league is a shell of what it used to be.

But be sure to call the BIG EAST CHAMPIONS!

Way to go NOVA!

I think this run by Nova will quiet down the doubters of the Big East quite a lot. (Then again I wasn't one of the doubters to begin with.)

Exactly, us Rutgers fans proximity to these schools and the fact that they kicked our butts for years in the Big East left us with the knowledge that these schools (DePaul aside) could play big time basketball.