Kolek planning to go pro
lying troll who no one with a brain should pay attention to.
Better than telling the truth?
Yes. Was pretty much a no-brainer to put this league together seeing what was happening with consolidation of football schools through conference expansion. The fact we play all teams twice is an awesome feature of NBE. Anyone know if that will continue once UCONN added?
Better than calling names.
Much of what you have here is true, but let’s get a little crisper on the Williams dates.Williams started January 2012, he was named AD in early December....his interview process and what he showed d he to his legal background and “plan” started a few months before that. He was chosen for a reason. We all get it, he messed with precious’ happiness.
🙄🙄🙄🙄I guess I should be happy that you finally decided to moderate this place. Too bad you’re not addressing the real problem though.
Rocky.....you gonna take this?
Mods take a lot of lumps. We're tougher, and less volatile, than the average fluffy blue monster.
So Larry Williams authored the plan for the NBE while he was being paid by another university? And he did it in a few weeks or did he author that plan before he was even interviewing for the job? Seriously, do you ever read what you write? You obviously don’t like Broeker.Btw, since you asked Larry, was hired as he was Mary DiStanislao’s buddy from ND to be the new sherif in town. She also happened to be Pilarz’s childhood friend. Funny how that works. All three collected severance packages from Marquette.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop still. You’re just a dishonest, lying troll who no one with a brain should pay attention to.
He was terrible because he mismanaged the basketball program. He tried to kill a mosquito with a shotgun. He could have managed that situation much better. And that’s not myopic. That’s reality What’s myopic is you claiming some other shoe would drop. Only to have nothing to happen. Because nothing was there to begin with and/or you’re a liar.
It’s a real accomplishment to be asked to leave as an AD after a year and a half of duty. His bad far outshines his good.
He was a black hole of AD’s, AINAh?
You’re the Larry Willians of this board. Not a compliment, AINAh.
Regardless of who ultimately gets majority credit for where the chips fell in 2012, Marquette and the C7 hit a GRAND SLAM in realignment. 2011 was a very scary time, affiliation-wise. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia had all left. Football aside (while acknowledging football drove the realignment bus), BE basketball was gutted. Louisville, UConn and Notre Dame were all looking to get out. What was the league's future looking like? Hello Boise State and San Diego State as football only members. Welcome Houston, SMU, Memphis, Temple and UCF for all sports (including basketball). The day it was announced Tulane and ECU were being added, I believed we were being relegated to mid-major status.All of the investments Marquette made (especially post Final Four 2003) would have been flushed down the drain. The consistent 10k+ crowds the BE had regularly been getting would have been erased. The NE based home to the league would have been taken away (nothing says NYC like all of the Southern, non-basketball programs added).The fact that the C7 managed to band together, find a partner in Fox, retain MSG as a tournament site AND keep the Big East brand and basketball history is nothing short of miraculous. I see what has occurred to UConn being "stuck behind" as a geographic outlier and mismatch in the American, and I shutter to wonder what might have happened if the C7 remained with football schools. We'd likely be looking at Dallas as our tournament site this year, along with numerous schools that just don't prioritize basketball with empty arenas and continuous unfulfilled potential. I'm overjoyed UConn is returning. I'm grateful our schools stuck together in tumultuous and uncertain times. I'm thrilled we added three schools with similar fan bases that are as passionate about men's basketball. It takes a village to make something of this magnitude to succeed. Larry, Pilarz, Broeker, et al each played significant and historical roles bringing this together. We should all be thankful that MU remains in a power basketball conference, with resources and associations that allow us to compete at a national level annually.
I just wish the contract for tv was up next year, the ecosystem is such a mess right now there is a lot of uncertainty. I’d like to see the conference lock in the revenue now while it is somewhat in tact.
The Big East imploded in September of 2011. Larry Williams started at Marquette on January 2, 2012. Marquette announced the start of their lacrosse programs in 2010. Nova announced they would upgrade their football program in April 2011. West Virginia announced they were leaving in October 2011. In December 2011, Boise St., San Diego State we’re joining BE football, while UCF, Houston and SMU were added.Then Larry showed up and just had a magical plan for the new Big East migration? First, he had to publicly question why MU added LAX, though. It was well clear to the Catholic 8 that football was going to rule the conference and diminish the basketball value and they needed to control their destiny so a plan was hatched.As I said, Larry did a great job on media and the exit...but MU and Nova already were well along on their migration plan for the current set-up. It took a year though for longtime partners ND and Louisville to chart their exits (and UCONN who failed). You can believe it or not, but to think MU didn’t have plans in place is not giving credit to Broeker or Nova to get the Catholic 8 on board. The first thing Pilarz did when he took over was to put Broeker on point. Why? He had a plan.
Expect a bump in TV pay when UConn If the current landscape has shown anything, it's that leagues should not lock themselves in long term with a network. The B1G is choosing for shorter term deals to continually have periods of open negotiation. The SEC will also be doing the same.
I don't mean to sound rude... Every 2 years is not always greater than the previous two years. I get that it's been great for a long time now, but if you get a very fair long term deal, you take it.