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Coaching Carousel 5 - You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow
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<blockquote data-quote="CuseJacket" data-source="post: 712904" data-attributes="member: 274"><p>Not to pile on, but I am revisiting this earlier post. What's missing in this imo is that the 90's and 00's happened since your time in CT in the 80's, and a lot changed in that time. The Big East was often (not always) considered better than the ACC. This was repeated on Gameday/ESPN i.e., national audiences. No regional bias. Stats backed up the commentary too.</p><p></p><p>I think the perception changed mildly when the ACC poached Louisville, Syracuse and Pitt... which has worked out probably worse than expected, if I'm being honest for the schools and the league, save for maybe Louisville. And the vacuum that was created in the northeast has enabled the rise of Nova, Seton Hall (maybe), etc. Add in Xavier, Butler, Creighton and it's a stout league by any criteria. I might have said 5 years ago that a Big East coach would/should auto-jump to an ACC school no matter what, such as GT, but I agree with [USER=1374]@Peacone36[/USER] and others that it really doesn't make sense. Big East is sitting pretty competitively and based on perception.</p><p></p><p>I'll concede that the ACC can get by with surface level, lay fan perception of "they got Duke" and therefore are great, much like SEC football has Bama, but the hype machine behind ACC basketball is nowhere near the magnitude nor effectiveness of the SEC thumping in football.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CuseJacket, post: 712904, member: 274"] Not to pile on, but I am revisiting this earlier post. What's missing in this imo is that the 90's and 00's happened since your time in CT in the 80's, and a lot changed in that time. The Big East was often (not always) considered better than the ACC. This was repeated on Gameday/ESPN i.e., national audiences. No regional bias. Stats backed up the commentary too. I think the perception changed mildly when the ACC poached Louisville, Syracuse and Pitt... which has worked out probably worse than expected, if I'm being honest for the schools and the league, save for maybe Louisville. And the vacuum that was created in the northeast has enabled the rise of Nova, Seton Hall (maybe), etc. Add in Xavier, Butler, Creighton and it's a stout league by any criteria. I might have said 5 years ago that a Big East coach would/should auto-jump to an ACC school no matter what, such as GT, but I agree with [USER=1374]@Peacone36[/USER] and others that it really doesn't make sense. Big East is sitting pretty competitively and based on perception. I'll concede that the ACC can get by with surface level, lay fan perception of "they got Duke" and therefore are great, much like SEC football has Bama, but the hype machine behind ACC basketball is nowhere near the magnitude nor effectiveness of the SEC thumping in football. [/QUOTE]
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