(04-26-2018 12:55 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 12:33 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 12:17 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 11:13 AM)Bogg Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 10:30 AM)stever20 Wrote:  for the 2011 league, it absolutely was a fatal blow for the all sports conference. To act like it's the same league as in 2011, sorry but it's not close.

I know how much it grates on you that things have gone well for the Big East and not so well for the AAC, but I'm pretty sure that Villanova and Providence and Seton Hall would dispute the idea that they were ever dealt a fatal blow. There was some shake-up in membership, sure, but they're still playing basketball in one of the best conferences in the country under the Big East banner and spending their postseason in a sold-out MSG. The current Big East is true to the vision of the original Big East despite the partial turnover - remember, "Big East Football" came along well after the fact as an accommodation to members of the originally non-football-playing conference. If anything the Big East went back to their roots with the current lineup.

The idea that the Big East died is mostly a function of Syracuse grads at ESPN wanting to throw themselves a going-away 30 for 30 before becoming a second-class outpost of a southern-centric league.

(04-26-2018 10:30 AM)stever20 Wrote:  Also, hate to say it but tough to call the BET the best conference tournament in the sport when it draws less than half the viewers the ACC tourney draws. The ACC tourney has the BET time spot prime time Saturday night. Last years ACC final was the #1 regular season basketball game of the year.

I don't see what ESPN/ABC's numbers have to do with in-person experience.

(04-26-2018 10:51 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  And that never has changed. Of course, in a given year since 1980, the Big East tournament might have been 'better' than the ACC tournament, from the perspective of team quality or fan enthusiasm, but that never changed the overall fact that the ACC tournament is the #1 conference hoops tournament, and always will be.

The Greensboro Coliseum isn't a sold-out MSG, and Greensboro NC isn't Manhattan.

You are correct, it isn't MSG....it's different and some would consider it superior for a collegiate basketball tournament.

Those would be people who never attended a Big East tournament in MSG.

Those would be people in tobacco road. They are the only ones who think that Greensboro Coliseum is superior to MSG. They even said on another thread a few years ago that Greensboro Coliseum has more basketball history and tradition than MSG.

Why do you people keep trying to drag this stuff up over and over again?



Obviously there are some things that are important as you attempt to cling to memories and remember how things once were. It's evident that the Big East Tournament in MSG is one of those things.