Last hurrah for Boeheim?


Things a Jerseyguy noted this week: No one has said anything officially yet, but I would take the odds that Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will NOT coach a game in the ACC. Boeheim grew up as a Big East guy at Cuse and the feeling here is that he will opt to step away at the end of this season rather than take two-hour bus trips from Charlotte to play a game at Clemson in February.

One of my many favorite memories of Boeheim, who won his 900th game at Syracuse earlier this week, was during one Big East tournament in New York City when a March blizzard sent most people connected with the tournament into a panic. “It’s just a little snow,” said Boeheim, wondering what the fuss was about.

And the people who down play how good a coach Boeheim is are either not paying attention or incapable of paying attention. In order for any coach to win 900 games at any level means that you have to AVERAGE 30 wins a year for 30 years. That’s hard to do at any level.

Next conference shake up move will be how the Big East reconfigures itself into a basketball and football conferences going their separate ways. The Catholic 7 will probably start out as a 10 team league–adding Xavier, Butler and let’s say VCU. ..Big East football will make first move West to Fresno State, if BYU continues to say No…Don’t count out the Big Ten making one more move. Georgia Tech remains in Jim Delany’s sites and Tech will listen if the projected numbers of revenue climb past the $40 million per year mark as projected. If that happens, Big Ten will need another team to cap out at 16. Did anyone say Virginia or North Carolina? Nah…

http://ajerseyguy.com/?p=4495

Watching SDSU,Boise St, ECU games the last 2 days brought back memories of these boards last year and how the future for the BE looked promising with lots of fan support going forward of all current and future BE schools. Somewhere that unravelled and the board became a pissing contest. Last year We were all pulling for all BE teams to win bowl games. Even the ones We disliked during the regular season. This bowl season We have No game threads and No pulling for each other. Guess like Boeheim, the BEast is now in many folks rearview mirror. Sad. The BEast will live on in some form but everyday something else changes.

I think the conf stuff has killed this years season. UCF just won 10 games and few in orlando even pay attention. Tix sales are down nationwide. Too much Chaos, and too little FB.

(12-22-2012 05:56 PM)goodknightfl Wrote:  I think the conf stuff has killed this years season. UCF just won 10 games and few in orlando even pay attention. Tix sales are down nationwide. Too much Chaos, and too little FB.

Good season for the Knights. It will all be settled soon enough and the focus will be back where it belongs . . . football.

let boise an sd su go, we still got houston, smu, add n illinois an ohio.
call it a day, no western div........

uconn
sfla
cent fla
cinci
memphis
temple
houston
smu
n illini
ohio
ecu
tulane

(12-22-2012 06:01 PM)Stookey57 Wrote:  let boise an sd su go, we still got houston, smu, add n illinois an ohio.
call it a day, no western div........

uconn
sfla
cent fla
cinci
memphis
temple
houston
smu
n illini
ohio

ecu
tulane

What about Tulane and ECU?

NIU and Ohio replace SDSU and Boise. ECU and Tulane replace Rutgers and Louisville. Memphis, Houston, SMU, UCF replace Pitt, Syracuse and WVU.

Yeah I know . . . .

the idea that programs will be orphaned is semi-riduculous...the remaining teams stay together.

second, if boise goes back to the mwc we lose a very good program but it won't affect Ucf or ecu's trajectory...neither cincy's nor uconn's...nor temple's.

the eastern schools already have the frmework and conference affiliation