http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releas...-big-east/

This is the next ESPN 30 for 30 film about the rise and fall of the Big East. Airs Sunday March 16 at 9 PM EST. Set your DVRs. I'm sure we'll have a great thread to read about this after it airs.

Looks great. Plum spot for it- one of the 2 best right with the Heisman Trophy ceremony. ESPN does a GREAT job with these normally so should be a great watch!

I'll bet they totally ignore their role in the demise of BEast football. That means the program will be nothing but fiction.

(02-24-2014 02:50 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  I'll bet they totally ignore their role in the demise of BEast football. That means the program will be nothing but fiction.

Yup. Expect some ESPiN spin.

LOL from Twitter (this is a UConn fan's tweet):

We Take The Stairs ‏@NoEscalators ·49m
The Big East "30 for 30" is just 90 minutes of ESPN executivess laughing while giving John Swofford a handie.

I have to say I don't disagree with him.

Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

(02-24-2014 02:54 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  LOL from Twitter (this is a UConn fan's tweet):

We Take The Stairs ‏@NoEscalators ·49m
The Big East "30 for 30" is just 90 minutes of ESPN executivess laughing while giving John Swofford a handie.

I have to say I don't disagree with him.

It's going to be the opposite of that with the involvement of Tranghese and others who lament the end of the old Big East.

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

Agreed. I would guess they might throw a few clips of the U, WVU and maybe Pitt/Syracuse.

I think this already aired it is just about how Big East basketball came to be and caught fire.

(02-24-2014 03:08 PM)MJG Wrote:  I think this already aired it is just about how Big East basketball came to be and caught fire.

I think this is original programming. HBO aired a special about 1985 Georgetown-Villanova that touched on the old Big East but that's the closest thing I remember.

I have a strong feeling I will need to stock up on remotes to smash while this one airs.

it's original.

of course it's going to be on the same night that
Cincy
Louisville
Uconn
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
Villanova
and potentially 2-3 others
make the tourney. Could easily see Big East, AAC, and ACC champions be old Big East teams- and could see West Virginia make a run in the Big 12.

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

The absence of Jim Calhoun pretty much confirms my point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5cS3OKsexQ

(02-24-2014 03:19 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

The absence of Jim Calhoun pretty much confirms my point...

It's funny- I think to the general fan, Jim Calhoun isn't viewed anywhere near in the same light as Boeheim, Canresecca, Pitino, or Thompson. I think a case could be made that Geno is closer to those quite frankly...

(02-24-2014 03:25 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 03:19 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

The absence of Jim Calhoun pretty much confirms my point...

It's funny- I think to the general fan, Jim Calhoun isn't viewed anywhere near in the same light as Boeheim, Canresecca, Pitino, or Thompson. I think a case could be made that Geno is closer to those quite frankly...

If the piece doesn't include anything past the 80s then I guess..

While there will be whining about how the ACC destroyed the BE, why does no one ever mention how the BE destroyed CUSA by taking Louisville, Cincinnati, Marquette, South Florida and DePaul?

(02-24-2014 03:32 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 03:25 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 03:19 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

The absence of Jim Calhoun pretty much confirms my point...

It's funny- I think to the general fan, Jim Calhoun isn't viewed anywhere near in the same light as Boeheim, Canresecca, Pitino, or Thompson. I think a case could be made that Geno is closer to those quite frankly...

If the piece doesn't include anything past the 80s then I guess..

Not really talking about the piece, but I'm just talking about to general fans- the names Boeheim, Carnesecca, Pitino, and Thompson are just a lot larger than Calhoun is. Heck to a lot of fans, the next name put on that list would be Rollie Massimino, and not Calhoun...

The BE was a joke of a conference - it was too big (on the basketball side) and really was a muddled mess most of the time - it made a joke of the conference season. Compare w/the 10 team B12 - where there will be a true, undisputed champion or share of the title.

The only reason the BE got media love was all the writers/reporters lived in BE markets.

(02-24-2014 03:25 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 03:19 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-24-2014 02:56 PM)Wedge Wrote:  Given what the press release focuses on (basketball) and the time slot for this show (right after the announcement of the March Madness brackets), one would expect that almost everything about football will be glossed over.

Take this paragraph, for an example, and you can see that this is a basketball-centered project:

Quote:The film is told primarily through the lens of famed Big East coaches such as Jim Boeheim, Lou Carnesecca, Rick Pitino and John Thompson, former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese, and some of its most iconic players like Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin and Ed Pinckney.

The absence of Jim Calhoun pretty much confirms my point...

It's funny- I think to the general fan, Jim Calhoun isn't viewed anywhere near in the same light as Boeheim, Canresecca, Pitino, or Thompson. I think a case could be made that Geno is closer to those quite frankly...

That's odd considering he has one less National Championship than all of them combined.

Geno being compared to those is even stranger.