Villanova

[LennX6]

We closed the 2001-2002 year with a 7-11 stretch. It was the end of everything.

Then won the NC the next year

 

[LennX6]

Disagree. When SU, Pitt and WVU leave, things will get instantly easier for GTown, UConn and Nova. Those teams will have better records, and will benefit from the "perception" of being even better.

The Basketball BE will be less interesting, but interesting nonetheless. Louisville, Connecticut, GTown, Marquette will still be around. Then the others will alternate good and bad years. The football side will be better than ppl think just from a curiousity factor with Boise St SMU Houston and SDSU

 

[Garbs]

they are really underachieving, pretty young overall, but the junior class has been real disappointing

Cheek and Yarou are to inconsistent and Waynes plays better when he can be a distributor and isn't relied on to score a lot

in their defense their worst loss is Santa Clara on the west coast, and they are +107 in RPI, and the other 4 losses are all top 100

St Joes is a pretty good team and will make some noise this year

it is going to be interesting to see what happens with CUSA and A10 because they both seem to have 4ish teams right now who could be tourney teams, and some of those bids could come from the BE as they will not be getting 9 this year

 

[SWC75]

Then won the NC the next year

Right.

 

[DoctorBombay]

For schools like G'Town and Nova and even L'ville the party is over. Their programs will never be the same. The decline will start in time. You can't sell top kids on playing in that conference and playing opponents like SMU, South Florida, UCF, DePaul, Houston, Rutgers, Providence, Seton Hall...etc. Few if any top high school kids will go to G'Town, L'Ville, and Nova, It's over for those schools. It won't happen overnight, but its over!

Disagree about LVille. They are a legit traditional power, AND they have a football team.
Someone is likely to pick them up, but even a worst-case scenario will have them as the Alpha Dog in a watered down BE- much like they were in C-USA/Metro leagues.
With that coach & those facilities, in that state...they should be fine.