AntiG
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RE: NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament becoming the BIG EAST Invitational...
(03-29-2013 07:34 PM)NJRedMan Wrote: (03-29-2013 07:12 PM)AntiG Wrote: (03-29-2013 10:36 AM)CincyBro Wrote: (03-29-2013 10:27 AM)NJRedMan Wrote: The big east isn't dead. Quit saying rest in peace. It's like holding a funeral for a person going through a divorce.
Sorry RedMan, but to most your new conf. will not be THE BE, it will be the BE in name only. You can't replace Syracuse, UL,UConn,Pitt., UC,etc. with three mid majors and expect the same kind of reverance. At best your new league will be a 3 or 4 bid Conf., Xavier is sliding downhill, McDermott will leave for pros and Stevens to UCLA is heating up. This will be a G'Town, Marquette league and that is all.
Agreed. Outside of Georgetown and the Johnnies during the 90s (which I rooted for during the Artest and Barkley days), the traditional Big East was all about Syracuse, UConn, Pitt, and then later on after the ACC defections, Louisville, W Va, Marquette, ND and Cincy.
The new Big East will be a good basketball league, but the Big East as we know it is dead... cut in half with the "divorce" and the best programs in the league in basketball (Syracuse, UConn, Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, West Va) are gone, and the notable football programs that really rounded out the conference (Miami, BC, Louisville, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, West Va, Rutgers) are gone. Its not the Big East that was up there in the college all-sports landscape with the big boys that developed over the past 2 and a half decades.
That's why I said Rest in Peace, Big East.
You can say what ever you want but it doesn't make you right. WVU had a nice ru towards the end but was mostly fodder during their tenure. Notre Dame never made a conference final, Cincy wasn't that good, my johnnies during our decade of mediocrity had a winning record against them, Pitt constantly underperformed in the NCAA, UofL was in the league for only 7 years. So we really only lost one true blue big east power.
You also left out Villanova. The C7 has had 3 final fours in the last ten years. Marquette is about to get to another. Throw in butlers 2 and that's 5 from this group.
Yeah, keep wishing that we died because were that good. Keep discrediting us brcayse you're all scared. I would be too! This league is dangerous. Watch out kids.
LOL I'm not "wishing" that you died, its just a fact. The Big East as we all knew it will be dead after this tournament.
After that is a split of Big East powers, after the defections of a bunch of the best and most influential programs that the conference had.
You guys are starting anew and I wish you luck. I certainly have no complaints, my Scarlet Knights are now part of the richest, most influential conference in college sports.
But as someone that grew up with Big East basketball AND football, its a sad day to see it end like this, no matter how you want to spin it because to me, the Big East was all about Syracuse, Miami, Va Tech, Rutgers, St. Johns, UConn, Louisville, Cincinnati, Georgetown, and yes throw in Nova which I accidentally left out. RIP
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