I will miss the Big East...

[BRNCUSEFRVCUSE]

The Big East is all we as Cuse fans know, Georgetown, Uconn, St. Johns, and all the rest. Ill miss playing those schools. But i look forward to playing UNC, DUKE,

and on the side bar (G-TECH, V-TECH, CLEMSON, MIAMI, AND BOSTON COLLEGE STINK) (Maryland and NC state are ok) think bout how many more guarenteed wins we will have a year.

Like in the BE, providence is bout to get better, st.johns is going to be scary good soon, and rutgers and seton hall are not pushovers any more.

So i think were getting out at the right time

 

[rrlbees]

You don't think we'll play them yearly? That seems such an obvious call from a fan\scheduling perspective. Not to say that's all that matters, obviously...

I hope so but I doubt it will happen yearly.

 

[Muttsy]

That stinks. Bc of fallout from our departure? Or truly just OOC scheduling difficulties?

Hell if they can make us the "Orange" and get rid of the curtain, I guess dropping Gtown doesn't seem like such a big deal.

 

[omniorange]

I hope so but I doubt it will happen yearly.

If we don't play the Hoyas annually it will be because they don't want it or because they will refuse to abide by our request not to try and prevent our fans from showing up at their arena.

I don't see us continuing a series with UConn though. So the only way that gets back on the schedule on a regular basis is for them to become #16 in the ACC, which will only possibly happen if ND decides to become #15 - so that's a long, long, long way from ever happening.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[Orangeyes]

Things change, can anyone remember who used to be our big basketball rivals before the formation of the Big East?

 

[rrlbees]

Things change, can anyone remember who used to be our big basketball rivals before the formation of the Big East?

st bonaventure. ecac all the way baby.

 

[Madbiker]

Things change, can anyone remember who used to be our big basketball rivals before the formation of the Big East?

St.Johns was a huge annual game prior to the BE. Other annual games were Rutgers, Niagara was good at that time, and UMass when Dr.J was there they kicked our butts.

 

[Scooch]

Things change, can anyone remember who used to be our big basketball rivals before the formation of the Big East?

I was going to make the same point. We're "familiar" with many teams in the Big East, but in some respects it's just the randomness of history why we feel that way.

Look, from a geographic standpoint it certainly makes more "sense" for us to play schools from Jersey and Rhode Island, than North Carolina and Virginia. But at the same time, those schools made choices too.

It struck me watching Duke-UNC the other night that there's no particular reason why G'town couldn't have maintained a 1-A level football program like Duke has. They just chose not to. Same for Nova, and the rest if them. So 'dems the breaks. Outside of geography we have MUCH more in common with almost any school in the ACC than we do with the hoops onlies.

 

[omniorange]

Things change, can anyone remember who used to be our big basketball rivals before the formation of the Big East?

The teams we played the most from 1960 until we were in the Big East were Colgate, Niagara, Canisius, Penn State, St. John's, Pitt, and West Virginia.

We didn't start playing the Bonnies on a regular basis until the 74-75 season, and actually played them more while in the Big East than prior to us being in the Big East. What probably makes that series stand out is that for the short period of time we were together in the ECAC, we would inevitably face them in the ECAC tourney after that tourney got started.

We played G'Town and UConn more than we played StB prior to joining the Big East.

Also, we always tried to play some team in the Boston area (BC, Holy Cross, or UMass) and in the Philly area (LaSalle or Temple) each year until we got into the Big East with BC and Nova.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[Scooch]

What's the history of the ECAC? Was that an actual conference, or just another weird variation on indendence, like the Lambert Trophy?

 

[omniorange]

What's the history of the ECAC? Was that an actual conference, or just another weird variation on indendence, like the Lambert Trophy?

Somewhere in-between those two. Definitely not a tight-knit conference as we know them to be, but was more a loose conglomeration of a lot of the northeastern squads that would eventually wind up in tighter-knit conferences.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[cuseattle]

G'Town every year for sure, and St. John's every year @ MSG. I would rather play Nova than UConn on any regular basis. Imagine if you will, the Husky basketball program shriveling up and and dying in the new Big"East" as Boston College blocks any chance they ever had to get into ACC.

 

[rstone7727]

I don't think regular games with G-Town, Uconn, Nova will be happening as some suggest. I think the rest of the BE and Marinatto would frown on that. Consider us "snubbed"...