Captain Kangaroo Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 The Big East is B-R-U-T-A-L in hoops. Cincinnati goes .500 in the conference and sits in the NIT with Akron and Miami. Ditto Louisville. I wonder if there are any regrets at those schools regarding the move from CUSA? Had either school stayed, they likely would have had a 5-9 seed in the NCAA's rather than an NIT bid.I also wonder if the folks in Toledo are smoking crack to think that leaving the MAC for the Big East...if that were even possible...would benefit them?I have to believe the Super-sized Big East is going to have a shakedown in the next season or two. Making the NCAA hoops tourney is simply going to be too difficult for some schools to swallow. Will such a shakedown affect the MAC? That will be interesting to see. Quote
TXZipFan Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 That's what the word is supposed to be. Too much B-Ball talent so they're gonna have to have a shake-down.Will it affect the MAC??? Probably the MAC and Mountain West seeing as they are argueably the two best Mid-Major Conferences I could see two of the poor football/good basketball teams leaving the Big East and two Solid or up-coming Mid-Majors moving in... potential to get better will probably be important. Akron has to win the MAC in football the next few years convincingly to have a true shot IMO. But the stadium project and any other sucess the school has will help. I don't see Toledo being the school with the most "potential" in the MAC. If any coach in the MAC could make the move and recruit the players needed to do it... it's JD. Hopefully Dambrot and they boys on the hardwood will have a nice little run in the NIT, anything that helps the image.FEAR THE ROO :macc: Quote
GP1 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 My first year out of graduate school I lived in Connecticut and absolutely fell in love with Big East basketball. It was Donyell Marshall's last season at UCONN and I was able to go to a bunch of games. Later, I was able to go to the Friday session of the Big East tournament that year and stayed the night in Manhattan and did it up right. Cincinnati, Louisville, Norte Dame, Marquette, et al have no business in that league and they will never be able to compete in that league because the best high school basketball is played on the east coast and those kids to to the old school Big East schools. Night in and night out, the competition is brutal.Boston College almost won the ACC their first year in the league and they probably would have not made it past the semi-final game of the Big East tournament.Any Big East team that made it to the semi-finals would win the Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC tournaments. Iowa is good? Ohio State is good? Florida is good? Kansas is good? These teams would be average Big East teams. Quote
msopher Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 I also wonder if the folks in Toledo are smoking crack to think that leaving the MAC for the Big East...if that were even possible...would benefit them? How could it not benefit Toledo if true? More national exposure, stronger conference, better opponents, better recruits, more money. As I suspected all along, I think it is you that is smoking something. And it must be some good sh*t. Quote
zippyrifle32 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 the people at the bottom of a "big" conference are just as unknown as the people at the top of a "mid mjor" conference. i think people need to stop trying to get into the "big" conferences and work to make their conferences better. Quote
Captain Kangaroo Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Posted March 14, 2006 I also wonder if the folks in Toledo are smoking crack to think that leaving the MAC for the Big East...if that were even possible...would benefit them?How could it not benefit Toledo if true? More national exposure, stronger conference, better opponents, better recruits, more money. As I suspected all along, I think it is you that is smoking something. And it must be some good sh*t. I guess if you're going to win 20 games in the MAC and not even get an NIT bid, you might as well win 2 games in the Big East and stay at home just-the-same? Quote
UADavid Posted March 14, 2006 Report Posted March 14, 2006 Cincinnati is now a little fish in a big pond. Quote
fear the brown roo Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 Cincinnati is now a little fish in a big pond. i prefer to think of them as a little turd in springfield lake. Quote
UADavid Posted March 15, 2006 Report Posted March 15, 2006 i prefer to think of them as a little turd in springfield lake.I love it and stand corrected. Quote
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