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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1876833, member: 636"]
Requiem for the Big East was a good 30-for-30, but it could have been much better than it was.  It basically was focused entirely on the great bb in the 80s and then talked about how the changing times and football eventually broke up the league by moving quickly to the end of the line.  No real mention about how the bb programs faltered in the 90s, how the league was almost brought to the brink of extinction with the first ACC expansion in 2003, how the bb rebounded with the new additions and a revitalization at Nova and Georgetown, how the football surprising survived the loss of Miami and VT, only to have the inevitable forces of football-centric expansion break the league down forever only to lead to the new entirely bb-centric Big East and a Big East bastardization of the ACC.  I bet you could get a compelling 4 hours of that story, especially taking into account the greed amongst both sides of the Big East and the impact ESPN had on many of these events.  But that would then require ESPN to be willing to hold up a mirror to itself not just for the good, but for the bad as well.

Cheers,
Neil
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