Revamped Big East

 Let's hope this guy is right.

http://eye-on-collegebasketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26283066/32016645
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Let's be honest, it was probably going to be a rough beginning of the season anyway. We have the youngest team in the NCAA and despite the upgrade in talent from last year, you can't beat experience. The disappointing aspect of it all is (a) it's a very real possibility these players never end up at St. John's (b) if they do end up here, they are going to be behind the learning curve for the remainder of the season.

Hopefully, these kids get their acts together and end up playing for us in December. If not, then it's up to Lavin to focus on adding additional pieces to next year's recruiting class.
 
Man...the ACC is really going to the the weak sister when it comes to football conferences. 

Those school should call BC and ask how they feel about having made the jump.

I'll miss playing Syracuse but I won't miss their fans during the BE tournament.

I won't miss Pitt at all.
 
I'll miss playing Syracuse but I won't miss their fans during the BE tournament.
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Amen to that, SJUFAN2.

Also at our MSG regular season games, where we are the visiting team on our own homecourt.

The local taverns around MSG would probably disagree with us, though.
 
 I hope the numbnuts that run the Big East from downtown Providence are in "secret talks" with Kansas and K State!
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A reporter on Twitter mentioned BE should quietly go after Duke and UNC.
 
 I tend to agree with TIS. I live in Syracuse and all I can say is the people here have a basketball team that is always competitive, but their football team is another story. This community is still living in the glory days of Brown, Davis and Little. They are at best a mediocre mid-major program but the local papers and TV are talking them up every day. Page after page of dribble. Their basketball program pays the bills. The one thing that makes me kind of sad, is now as we climb in the Big East I was looking foward to watching us kick their butts. They are arrogant and condescending. So I don't mind seeing them leave the Big East if that is their choice....Goodbye!
 
 And just for Marcus, Cuse Lax to ACC would make that league even better.
 
 I tend to agree with TIS. I live in Syracuse and all I can say is the people here have a basketball team that is always competitive, but their football team is another story. This community is still living in the glory days of Brown, Davis and Little. They are at best a mediocre mid-major program but the local papers and TV are talking them up every day. Page after page of dribble. Their basketball program pays the bills. The one thing that makes me kind of sad, is now as we climb in the Big East I was looking foward to watching us kick their butts. They are arrogant and condescending. So I don't mind seeing them leave the Big East if that is their choice....Goodbye!
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If the Cuse leave the BE look for Jim B to retire and leave the basketball program in the dust!
 
I don't necessarily see a basketball only conference as a bad thing-in fact if the right teams are part of it and I think very importantly -if SJU is doing very well in basketball at the time of the formation it will be a big plus for the strength of the new conference-SJU brings the NY metro area TV market-if we're good that will be a major piece of a prosperous basketball conference and bigger TV deals for the conference.
Yes, we will loose some of the best BBAll programs in the conference-but keeping Georgetown(DC metro are) Marquette, Depaul (north-midwest area), Providence-New England area, and other keepers and add ons could bring in more viewership areas-certainly enough to make it a rewarding financial situation for the "new conference". In my opinion there is also something to be said about basketball players not always wanting to go to a football first school
On a side note-most of the football schools in the BE are currently not of much value to the BCS-so I would suspect at least some of the football schools will be left out of the big conferences and get demoted to "small time" football conferences. I am not sure I would want to keep NOVA if they have plans to one day jump onto the big football stage-right now they don't have the facilities to be included in a major football conference-but if they eventually do gain that ability they will jump ship and rock the boat again.
The above is just my opinion as of now and the landscape could change quickly and to a great degree and then who knows.
I would miss playing SYR. and UCONN-but given the ages of their respective coaches who knows if either will be able to continue there excellent BBALL play once the two coaches leave.
 
 Syracuse football is a joke!! Good luck recruiting against Florida State----warm weather or tundra?----hmmm I think a recruit would not have a difficult decision there! Once Jim Boeheim retires the BB program will go into a funk and become an ACC doormat. Regardless of the spin the BC administration has been putting out, the jump to the ACC has been a disaster sports-wise! The BC folks try to spin a tale of being in an elite ACADEMIC conference. That is the biggest load of horse manure and I never bought into it. It was about $$$$. Miami was a good fit for the ACC but they too are heading for the football toilet as quickly as you can say BC IS. 0-3 in the ACC after losing to DUKE at HOME! LMAO!!
Yeah, Syracuse in the ACC after Boeheim is equivalent to UNLV after Tark the Shark! Will the last Orange fan turn out the lights at the Carrier Dome for basketball games starting in 2014! As they say in Bensonhurst Brooklyn --Va fon Gool Syracuse!
 
 I hope the numbnuts that run the Big East from downtown Providence are in "secret talks" with Kansas and K State!
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A reporter on Twitter mentioned BE should quietly go after Duke and UNC.
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I think they should go after Duke, UNC, Virginia, Maryland, Wake, and BC. The split is coming, so they should just do it already.
 
 I hope the numbnuts that run the Big East from downtown Providence are in "secret talks" with Kansas and K State!
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A reporter on Twitter mentioned BE should quietly go after Duke and UNC.
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I think they should go after Duke, UNC, Virginia, Maryland, Wake, and BC. The split is coming, so they should just do it already.
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Yeah, that works, it would create a basketball superconference. It would be amazing to see a Lavin-led STJ squad in a rivalry along with Duke and UNC.
 
I don't think we should expect any ACC school to leave anytime soon. Last week, the ACC's presidents met in Greensboro, N.C., and unanimously voted to increase the league's withdrawal fee to $20 million. That change took affect immediately, meaning if any conference was interested in an ACC team, that ACC program would have to pay dearly to leave.  
 
I can see the fans in syracuse lining up for tickets against Clemson. Syracuse and Pitt will always be 3a and 3b in the ACC. its a Duke-Carolina conference. and if Syracuse thinks they are ever getting the acc tourney they probobly are out of their minds. That is never leaving Carolina.

But, football rules the roost in college athletics so I money is the goal. forget about your students, fans and alumni as long as u make more money.

sad, state the NCAA is in. 
 
Can we kick them out right away?

I saw where they are required to give 27 months notice to the BE if they are leaving.

Why wait? 
 
 Let Pitt and SU go the way of BC and Miami. What happened to them?....They've become irrelevant, and shadows of their former selves in both Bball and Fball.
 
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