Now that the new league has been together for two yrs and all the fans should be familar with the BE office, what are everyone's thoughts on Tranghese?

Do you think he is he a good commish that made the right choices in terms of expansion, kept the league together and got a great tv contract or a poor one who has never been able to fully grasp or does not have the ability to solve some of the major football issues facing the league?

Jackson

Jackson1011 Wrote:Now that the new league has been together for two yrs and all the fans should be familar with the BE office, what are everyone's thoughts on Tranghese?

Do you think he is he a good commish that made the right choices in terms of expansion, kept the league together and got a great tv contract or a poor one who has never been able to fully grasp or does not have the ability to solve some of the major football issues facing the league?

Jackson

MT has done a respectable job in holding the league together. If that is the end he wanted to reach. Of course I'm of the opinion that the football members could be substantially more successful on their own. MT imo has his head in the sand. He had it in the sand prior to the ACC raid, pulled it out for a few brief moments to salvage his conference and then reinserted it into the ground. The Big East Conference on the football and basketball front faces a myriad of issues aside from its unwieldy and diverse membership that will never be resolved in this configuration from unbalanced scheduling in basketball to an 8 member football conference in the era of a 12 game season. These issues serve as fractures that will never allow the conference to gel for the long term. It will never be immune to poaching from other conferences as long as this is the case and the football membership will have to work harder to establish their identities and intra-conference rivalries than they would in a separate conference. The fact that Louisville and WVU didn't play a regular season basketball game this past year is a testament to that.

IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy..... ;-)

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy.....

You are welcome to your opinion, but I regard C-USA's Brit Banowsky as one of the very best, not only in terms of credentials and experience (an attorney, former right-hand man for the Big 12 commissioner and former Southland Conference commissioner) but proven by the job he has done so far with C-USA. Bear in mind that within months after taking the reins of C-USA, our conference suffered the losses of 4 all-sports members plus 4 non-football members almost overnight. Out of the wreckage, he forged a geographically-sensibe, 12-school, all-sports conference comprised of a blend of institution having class, tradition, academic excellence, large markets, championship potential in a wide array of sports and a surprisingly good TV and bowl package. Few others could have done so well with the hand that was dealt. You may or may not like his decisions, but those who think him incompetent are foolish.

Gray Avenger Wrote:

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy.....

You are welcome to your opinion, but I regard C-USA's Brit Banowsky as one of the very best, not only in terms of credentials and experience (an attorney, former right-hand man for the Big 12 commissioner and former Southland Conference commissioner) but proven by the job he has done so far with C-USA. Bear in mind that within months after taking the reins of C-USA, our conference suffered the losses of 4 all-sports members plus 4 non-football members almost overnight. Out of the wreckage, he forged a geographically-sensibe, 12-school, all-sports conference comprised of a blend of institution having class, tradition, academic excellence, large markets, championship potential in a wide array of sports and a surprisingly good TV and bowl package. Few others could have done so well with the hand that was dealt. You may or may not like his decisions, but those who think him incompetent are foolish.

Get back to work Britton. This thread has nothing to do with you.

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Gray Avenger Wrote:

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy.....

You are welcome to your opinion, but I regard C-USA's Brit Banowsky as one of the very best, not only in terms of credentials and experience (an attorney, former right-hand man for the Big 12 commissioner and former Southland Conference commissioner) but proven by the job he has done so far with C-USA. Bear in mind that within months after taking the reins of C-USA, our conference suffered the losses of 4 all-sports members plus 4 non-football members almost overnight. Out of the wreckage, he forged a geographically-sensibe, 12-school, all-sports conference comprised of a blend of institution having class, tradition, academic excellence, large markets, championship potential in a wide array of sports and a surprisingly good TV and bowl package. Few others could have done so well with the hand that was dealt. You may or may not like his decisions, but those who think him incompetent are foolish.

Get back to work Britton. This thread has nothing to do with you.

lmfao lmfao

John Swofford and Mike Tranghese should have worked together on a sensible realignment plan instead of sueing each other.

Gray Avenger Wrote:

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy.....

You are welcome to your opinion, but I regard C-USA's Brit Banowsky as one of the very best, not only in terms of credentials and experience (an attorney, former right-hand man for the Big 12 commissioner and former Southland Conference commissioner) but proven by the job he has done so far with C-USA. Bear in mind that within months after taking the reins of C-USA, our conference suffered the losses of 4 all-sports members plus 4 non-football members almost overnight. Out of the wreckage, he forged a geographically-sensibe, 12-school, all-sports conference comprised of a blend of institution having class, tradition, academic excellence, large markets, championship potential in a wide array of sports and a surprisingly good TV and bowl package. Few others could have done so well with the hand that was dealt. You may or may not like his decisions, but those who think him incompetent are foolish.

We obviously have a difference of opinion on Banowsky - and CUSA, for that matter.....

...and I'd add that "geographically-sensible" is in the eyes of the beholder..... ;-)

Back to the cusa board and discuss your leader.

David Krysakowski Wrote:John Swofford and Mike Tranghese should have worked together on a sensible realignment plan instead of sueing each other.

MT 'supposedly' offered the ACC the BE 'FB' schools prior to the formation of the BE FB in the early 90s to keep the BE a BB conference.

Swofford and the ACC presidents weren't interested in a sensible realignment plan (ie Miami only).

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy..... ;-)

Something is wrong because I am agreeing with you 100% for once.

Gray Avenger Wrote:

Capital Pirate Wrote:IMO, Tranghese is probably the 2nd most inept commish in the country....behind Britt Banowsy.....

You are welcome to your opinion, but I regard C-USA's Brit Banowsky as one of the very best, not only in terms of credentials and experience (an attorney, former right-hand man for the Big 12 commissioner and former Southland Conference commissioner) but proven by the job he has done so far with C-USA. Bear in mind that within months after taking the reins of C-USA, our conference suffered the losses of 4 all-sports members plus 4 non-football members almost overnight. Out of the wreckage, he forged a geographically-sensibe, 12-school, all-sports conference comprised of a blend of institution having class, tradition, academic excellence, large markets, championship potential in a wide array of sports and a surprisingly good TV and bowl package. Few others could have done so well with the hand that was dealt. You may or may not like his decisions, but those who think him incompetent are foolish.

I was wondering where that smell of moth balls and urine were coming from, and then I realized that the great Avenger is hanging around the BigEast boards again.

I am obviously biased but USF fans love MT. If not for his vision and Boston College's treachery USF would be stuck in C-DOA.

I know Tranghese is getting hammered for being blindsided, and rightfully so, but he has rebounded UNBELIEVABLY well and has been on FIRE. The Big East needed football help to keep their BCS bid? All he did was pick up a BCS bowl champion and Top 10 program (Louisville) and a 9 win program in an important market (South Florida) and an 8 win program in a brand new, huge market (Cincinnati). He not only retained the Big East's BCS bid and watched the conference return to elite status but much deeper and more balanced. We were in danger of losing bowls, and did lose bowls, and he still put together a respectable bowl lineup. He inked the Big East to the best television contract in history including a very good football television contract after watching it sliced in half. The Big East is a major player again so you have to give the man his props. And, as CyberBull said, Cincinnati fans have a personal bias in his favor! ;-)

CatsClaw Wrote:I know Tranghese is getting hammered for being blindsided, and rightfully so, but he has rebounded UNBELIEVABLY well and has been on FIRE. The Big East needed football help to keep their BCS bid? All he did was pick up a BCS bowl champion and Top 10 program (Louisville) and a 9 win program in an important market (South Florida) and an 8 win program in a brand new, huge market (Cincinnati). He not only retained the Big East's BCS bid and watched the conference return to elite status but much deeper and more balanced. We were in danger of losing bowls, and did lose bowls, and he still put together a respectable bowl lineup. He inked the Big East to the best television contract in history including a very good football television contract after watching it sliced in half. The Big East is a major player again so you have to give the man his props. And, as CyberBull said, Cincinnati fans have a personal bias in his favor! ;-)

Agreed.

I think MT is a great commish.
He has done a great job witht he BEast.
He is definitely a basketball first guy.
He could do much more for the football side of things.
He needs a few lessons in scheduling. More than a few.

As Cyber said.
Im partial to MT because he fought to bring USF into BE, with that said he represents a league that is split in two between football playing BE teams and those that do not. Is hard to take care of ALL the leagues teams when their priorities are NOT the same. I think thats why he said that he would step down if the league had split.

CatsClaw Wrote:I know Tranghese is getting hammered for being blindsided, and rightfully so, but he has rebounded UNBELIEVABLY well and has been on FIRE. The Big East needed football help to keep their BCS bid? All he did was pick up a BCS bowl champion and Top 10 program (Louisville) and a 9 win program in an important market (South Florida) and an 8 win program in a brand new, huge market (Cincinnati). He not only retained the Big East's BCS bid and watched the conference return to elite status but much deeper and more balanced. We were in danger of losing bowls, and did lose bowls, and he still put together a respectable bowl lineup. He inked the Big East to the best television contract in history including a very good football television contract after watching it sliced in half. The Big East is a major player again so you have to give the man his props. And, as CyberBull said, Cincinnati fans have a personal bias in his favor! ;-)

Despite TM inept, he was lucky to be able to rely on UConn and Syracuse national championships to sell to the world that we have the best basketball league in the nation and until West Virginia beat Georgia to give us all a breathing room and follow by 5-0 bowls wins. If we didn

If he goes through with his threat not to make UC/WVU a mirror game, then...

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!

SO#1 Wrote:[quote="CatsClaw"]I know Tranghese is getting hammered for being blindsided, and rightfully so, but he has rebounded UNBELIEVABLY well and has been on FIRE. The Big East needed football help to keep their BCS bid? All he did was pick up a BCS bowl champion and Top 10 program (Louisville) and a 9 win program in an important market (South Florida) and an 8 win program in a brand new, huge market (Cincinnati). He not only retained the Big East's BCS bid and watched the conference return to elite status but much deeper and more balanced. We were in danger of losing bowls, and did lose bowls, and he still put together a respectable bowl lineup. He inked the Big East to the best television contract in history including a very good football television contract after watching it sliced in half. The Big East is a major player again so you have to give the man his props. And, as CyberBull said, Cincinnati fans have a personal bias in his favor! ;-)

Despite TM inept, he was lucky to be able to rely on UConn and Syracuse national championships to sell to the world that we have the best basketball league in the nation and until West Virginia beat Georgia to us all a breathing room and follow by 5-0 bowls wins. If we didn