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San Diego State may be headed to the Big East + West Conference
The Big East continues its major conference expansion plans, reaching out to BYU and San Diego State as potential new candidates to join the league. “There is a push,” BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said when asked about the Big East during his press conference Monday. “And there are conversations that are in place for the Big East to convince or to have BYU join that conference. I trust our Athletic Director [Tom Holmoe] and President [Cecil] Samuelson to deal with all that.” UCF, currently a member of Conference USA, is among the first six schools the Big East targeted to replace West Virginia, TCU, Pittsburgh and Syracuse defecting to the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast conferences. The Knights are expected to formally accept an invitation to join the Big East in all sports this week. UCF is slated to begin competing in the Big East … Read entire article »
Filed under: Aztec Sports News
More major realignment could happen in near future
In college football 22 teams in a conference is a crowd; 32 teams bundled together could be utter chaos. But this is how Fresno State and 31 other teams feel after the recent rumors that surfaced over the weekend. The Boston Globe reported that the Big East Conference has a plan to combine with two non-automatic-qualifying conferences in the Mountain West Conference and Conference USA to help it maintain its AQ status and provide the luxury to the formers. The Big East just recently lost Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the Atlantic Coast Conference and is looking for ways to save its AQ status if it wants to continue to have the opportunity to award its conference champion a shot at a Bowl Championship Series game at season’s end. The plan for the … Read entire article »
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UCONN wins: however, Big East is still Overrated
Basketball betting: Triple Play System Eleven teams from the big east (that’s right-ELEVEN!) had a chance to make the run; and only two got past the round of Sixteen. The odds were bound to be in favor of the overrated Big East. It’s just that simple. They had eleven chances to supplant a team into the Championship. That unto itself is a travesty; a miscarriage of Basketball justice. Ostensibly, one can see that efforts to ensure that Advertising revenue; TV ratings and Big East National Exposure by the NCAA; the AP and ESPN were top priority. Charles Barkley had it right, the Big east was overrated, and as a consequence, many well-deserving teams worthy of tournament acceptance were snubbed. The bigger picture is not just about the Big East and their … Read entire article »
Filed under: Aztec Basketball, Fan Dogma
ESPN’s Man-Crush over the Big East
It’s funny; I was listening to Dave and Doris commentate the St. Johns-Pittsburgh game and Dave was beside himself. Filled with the typical ESPN quasi-hyperbolic pontification over Big east teams; he continued to claim that St. Johns was relevant again; he tried to justify St. Johns lousy seasons of the past; and the dribble continued. I had to step back when he proudly proclaimed St. John’s relevance again with a 16-9 record; yet, there is SDSU: a Cinderella Story; a basketball season Hollywood would have had trouble contriving; a school and a season that has set the college basketball nation on fire west of the Rockies; and yet, not one mention of the team or the story. ESPN is a Joke. Fraught with subjective East Coast bias; mired … Read entire article »
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Aztecs disrespected for the second week: remain 6th ranked!
SDSU for the second week in a row gets disrespected-stays 6th ranked, yet has the best record in the Nation; Kansas moves up-okay, I can accept that; Norte Dame, a team playing way beyond themselves (hell they can’t believe it), moves up in the rankings to a hyperinflated No.7-What the heck is going on there?; Ohio State drops like a feather, but should have fell lilke a rock after losing to No. 14 Wisconsin; Texas has three losses and are still ranked above 4 teams with better records. Welcome to the sham they call the Big East Poll: I mean the AP Poll. It’s a joke folks! Chime in and tell me what you think. I am interested in your thoughts. Aztec fans give it to me: let everyone know that … Read entire article »
Filed under: Aztec Basketball
Is the Big East overrated?
Posted by Mike Trogan March 12, 2009 23:01PM I may get flak for this not being directly MSU related, but with the latest Bracketology having three Big East teams as one seeds, I think it is relevant. On top of that this is the conference Dick Vitale recently called one of the best he has covered in 30 years of broadcasting. Watch ESPN for thirty seconds and you are bound to run across a slurpfest, err segment, praising the Big East. Here is my case why the conference is a fraud (side note: I am using the word “fraud” once again, not solely due to a painfully limited vocabulary but also because it seems to illicit strong reactions from people): Real RPI has them not first, not second, not even third but fourth … Read entire article »
Filed under: Aztec Football