Tag Archives: 'big east'

• The Heist of 2001 — Syracuse v. VaTech

  This is the oldest post that I never completed (until now). I started writing it in 2003, and it was supposed to follow one of my most influential posts: A Case Against Perennially Over-Ranked VaTech. I was going to spend a considerable amount of time going through the entire 2001 football season, game by game, [...]

• 16 Teams

  I keep telling myself that my ideas are perfectly good; everyone else is an idiot. In 2006, I posted my idea for revising the Big East basketball tournament… Bring all the schools to the table, all sixteen of them, seeded (yep, you’ve got it) one through sixteen. On Monday, 1 plays 16, 8 plays 9, [...]

• Big East Sheds Dead Weight

  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 [...]

• The Ideal Big East

  This is a little off topic (from the usual politics) and I am a bit biased (being a Syracuse alumnus), however, let’s take a look at the dire situation in the Big East and propose a fix. First, let’s pretend — that when Penn State asked to join the Big East back in the early [...]