(03-30-2013 01:14 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(03-29-2013 08:54 PM)NJRedMan Wrote:  

(03-29-2013 08:41 PM)Texas2Step Wrote:  The Big East of the last 25 years had a spotlight from September all the way to the end of March, and many times the beginning of April. Regardless of the programs there or not there, that spotlight only has a chance to shine from January to March now. Big East basketball, no matter how great it is, will not turn the nation away from college football's regular season and bowl games. For that reason alone, the Big East as an entire generation of fans know it, is no more after this tournament is over.

That'd not even close to true. The big east FB conference wasn't even mentioned during FB season unless they were getting made fun of. The BBall was the side that was actually respected. The basketball side was NEVER reffered to as "The Big Least".

This idea that the conference is somehow dead because a few good teams and a bunch of mediocre teams left is a joke.

You must have forgotten about the period in the 90's when only Syracuse and Uconn were doing anything in basketball on the national scene. Georgetown was down for a while at the end of JT-2 career and Craig Esherick did almost nothing when he replaced JT2. St Johns was down and Nova was down. In fact, the first time that I heard the expression Big Least, they were referring to BE basketball. And it was a sportscaster who said it.

SJU was pretty good during that time too though. BE football though during that period was dominant.