Not if you kept football in the AAC.
You’re dumb.
or look a the last 5 yearsAs regards the almighty Big East vs AAC basketball, perhaps one needs to look at the 2019 NCAA results to date to clear their visions a bit: Big East 1 win and four losses with no one remaining. AAC 3 wins and 3 losses. with one team remaining.
or look a the last 5 years
But Villanova...I think...could be pretty good next year.
Great recruiting (three 5 stars in class)...only thing missing are Bigs.
And they will open up their season with closed scrimmages against UNC and Virginia...jump right in and test yourself with the big boys.
Seton Hall will have a great rim protector next season. Ike Obiago, a 7 foot shot blocking machine, transferred after a freshman season at FSU and sat out a year.
He averaged a block every five minutes on the floor (had 7 vs Boston College)....raw on offense but great timing on shot blocking.
I agree the big is critical.
In the 2016 title run we had Ochefu playing at a high level.
In 2017, Omari Spellman (5 star) had to sit as the NCAA didn't like his 8th grade private school transfer. That cost us the 3-peat.
The 2018 title run was one of the, if not the most, dominant of all time. Omari was key.
We had 4 drafted players last year that all had eligibility remaining - Brunson, Bridges, Divencenzo, & Spellman (3 years remaining). With only Spellman staying we still would have had the balance in the front court.
Next year Jeremiah Robinson-Earl will fill that big role, and Bryan Antoine adds to the 5 star back court. Add Justin Moore and Eric Dixon and we have a great Freshman class.
Nova should be good for a long time.
As long as Jay Wright is there, Nova will be a force. College sports are so coach dependent that even the best programs will flounder once a great coach leaves. Michigan fans were looking forward to the day that Lloyd Carr left so they could upgrade to a “modern” offense. Everybody saw how that has turned out.
The issue here is that one program doesn’t make a conference great. While Nova has been extraordinarily great the past few years, the rest of the Big East has been extraordinarily mediocre at best. They also suffer from a lack of recognition. Being from the Midwest, I have no clue how many teams are even in the Big East. I can name Nova, St. John’s, Georgetown and Providence off of the top of my head and the only reason I know Providence is in the Big East is my BiL is an alum. That’s it. Three of those four teams I named have not been good recently, at least that’s been my perception. Compared to the ACC and the Big10, the Big East as a whole has been down right bad.
I hope the Big East becomes more than Nova and everybody else before Jay Wright leaves. The more great conferences we have, the better off we fans are.
In the minds of 99.9% of the general sports watching public The Big East will forever be about the days of Uconn, Cuse, Gtown, Pitt, St Johns and others battling it out in MSG. Right now the conference is Villanova and bunch of schools that nobody except their alums care about or can even list.
If you're a hoops fan from the Midwest, I'm surprised you don't know Marquette, Creighton, Butler, and Xavier as Big East. Seton Hall is an original member, but I can see forgetting them.
NCAA Bids:
I thought the new flavor of the month mid major was Buffalo.Maybe the Big East should add Belmont.
Buffalo doesn't fit in the Big East. They are interested in private schools like Butler.I thought the new flavor of the month mid major was Buffalo.
I'm still trying to figure out why is a Villanova fan is trying to get a state University into a conference of Catholic schools! Big East is not going to make BB better. We need to get into either the Big Ten or the ACC, but I still think the ACC would accept a community college in Idaho before they invite us...2019 BIG EAST Championship Caps Banner Attendance Week
The four sellouts in five sessions during the championship week are a first for the BIG EAST Conference.
The 2019 BIG EAST Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament – presented by Jeep – brought in nearly 100,000 fans over the tournament’s four-day run in New York City, with a total of 98,782. The tournament averaged 19,756 per session over the course of the week, and filled Madison Square Garden to 99.7 percent capacity.
Which is why they don't fit in the Big East.We better not write off Buffalo for anything. If UConn doesn't get its house in order soon in men's BB and football, if there is an opening in the B10 or even the ACC, Buffalo could be a contender for the spot. They are member of AAU, a near requirement for B10, they have decent demographics for conference channels, located in a huge state, and sometimes they are competitive in sports.
The obvious answer is buffalo is going to be chosen in addition to UConn to resolve the contiguous states thing.We better not write off Buffalo for anything. If UConn doesn't get its house in order soon in men's BB and football, if there is an opening in the B10 or even the ACC, Buffalo could be a contender for the spot. They are member of AAU, a near requirement for B10, they have decent demographics for conference channels, located in a huge state, and sometimes they are competitive in sports.
I'm still trying to figure out why is a Villanova fan is trying to get a state University into a conference of Catholic schools! Big East is not going to make BB better. We need to get into either the Big Ten or the ACC, but I still think the ACC would accept a community college in Idaho before they invite us...
The Big East is a basketball-first conference. Butler isn't Catholic.
Of course UConn would take the ACC or Big Ten as the money is winning the lottery and it lands your football program. The problem is you don't get invited, so it's not a real option.
While not Catholic, it did start as a Christian college ("North Western Christian University") and fits well with the other new Big East school in terms of size (4,500 student), urban (fringe area of Indianapolis) and historically a basketball school in a basketball-mad region. Thus, they are a good fit.
UConn as a State flagship university with 32,500 undergraduate students local in a rural area (due to agricultural roots like Penn State, Michigan St. Virginia Tech, etc.) and a major (D-1A) football team does not.