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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 4588111, member: 668"]
The advent of ESPN played such a huge role in the league's successes with so many of the games being broadcasted nationally, weeknights, weekends, etc.  All of those aforementioned coaches undoubtedly were great coaches in their own right, but I doubt anyone of them would've argued that the role of both ESPN & the Big East played a significant part in their successes as well.

That said, no one reaped the benefits more, IMO, than that of JB relative to the jewel in which the Carrier Dome was to Syracuse and its program.  The Dome at the time was to the world of college basketball then, as was this thing some years later called the [I]"information superhighway,"[/I] better known today as the internet.
Except, that no one else had anything like it on its campus, it was exclusive.

I think you'd be quite naive to believe, relative to your "short of the dome" remark, that that in and of itself wasn't a complete game changer and how it separated Syracuse from its peers in many ways.  It played a monumental role in JB's and Syracuse's success.  Attempting to minimize such a huge attraction, advantages it brought, etc. would be somewhat disingenuous in my opinion.
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