Big East Sheds Dead Weight
Posted at 11:03 am on Monday, November 7, 2005, in Sports, and tagged big east, syracuse.
Upon hearing the so-called “devastating” news that the University of Miami, Boston College and hodunk-community college Virginia Tech were leaving the Big East for the likes of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Syracuse University basketball coach Jim Boeheim stated that the Big East had shed dead weight. And have they ever.
Yes, the Big East football conference now resembles more of a mid-major than a BCS-contending conference, but the Big East has strengthened its strong-hold in the sport that the league was invented for… basketball. Miami, VaTech and BC were perennially at the bottom of the league (despite a few good seasons here and there by BC and Miami; VaTech should sell their uniforms and equipment since they don’t need it), and now the basketball-dominant league hosts Louisville, Marquette, Cincinatti and DePaul.
The ACC football management know that they have put together a great football conference (and they have, but at the cost of reducing the competition level of basketball in the ACC), but the basketball gods have struck down again in the continual formation of the greatest basketball league on earth, the Big East. And the teams play in the cities of New York, Chicago, Phildelphia, and D.C., not on former tobacco plantations.
The new sixteen-team single-division basketball league looks like this…
Image: Big East
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