Chip Bayers
Professor
Posts: 7001
Loc: New York
Reg: 11-21-04
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04-09-24 06:22 PM - Post#367174
In response to Penndemonium
Amen. Even though the Big East is quite strong right now, I will never forget the old rivalries with Georgetown, St. Johns, Uconn, Villanova, and Syracuse when they were all in their prime. Providence, Seton Hall, and Boston College each also had some good years too. The conference rivalries were so intense. Those teams didn't need TV contracts and NIL to have fire. The games were like parking lot rumbles.
Except Dave Gavitt created the Big East as a TV conference, and sold it to ESPN to headline Big Monday BITD. Boeheim, for example, sold LA kid Stevie Thompson on the fact his family would be able to see him on national TV constantly if he came to the cold and isolation of upstate NY.
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