Demon22 wrote:I liked it... and I hated it. Let me explain.
I thought a large part of what the documentary covered, they covered very well. That said...
1. My guess is that if you're a fan of Syracuse, Georgetown, St. John's, or maybe Villanova, you really enjoyed it.
2. My guess is also that if you're a fan of Boston College, Seton Hall, Providence, Connecticut, or PIttsburgh, you felt short-changed.
3. Seriously, how do you produce a documentary on the Big East and skip over UConn's three National Championships entirely?
4. And how do you produce a documentary on the Big East and reduce guys like Pitino and Calhoun to supporting characters? And barely mention PJ Carlesimo or Gary Williams? These are names that basketball fans recognize, and they were all in the conference together.
5. Tranghese and DeGioia are the only administrators that you interviewed when the league was falling apart? Where were the interviews with Presidents/ADs from the schools that left? What does Calhoun or the AD at UConn have to say about Boston College? Where's the interview with people pointing the finger at Nordenberg? No mention of the flat-out hypocrisy from the Pittsburgh and Syracuse camps?
6. You skip over the fact that as late as 2010, people were still talking about the Big East as the best conference in the country, and maybe the best of all time? No mention of the fact that right before they broke up, they put eight teams in the NCAA Tournament?
stever20 wrote:was listening to Cowherd yesterday on ESPN- he was absoultely gushing about it. And Jay Wright came on and did the same. How it brought back memories for both of them. Thought what Cowherd was saying was probably spot on- comparing Georgetown basketball back in the 80s to Miami Hurricane football.
mpwalsh8 wrote:stever20 wrote:was listening to Cowherd yesterday on ESPN- he was absoultely gushing about it. And Jay Wright came on and did the same. How it brought back memories for both of them. Thought what Cowherd was saying was probably spot on- comparing Georgetown basketball back in the 80s to Miami Hurricane football.
The Miami Football / Georgetown basketball analogy is a pretty good one. I grew up in Northern Virginia and anywhere you'd go in DC the urban youth were wearing Georgetown jackets and hats. The jackets that were seen in some of the 30-for-30 clips the other night were everywhere in DC. Less so out in suburban Virginia but when Michael Jackson, who played at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia (the definition of suburbia at the time) was playing for Georgetown, those jackets were a "must have" for a lot kids.
RDinNY wrote:The documentary really focused on the start of the Big East. Hence, why Uconn wasn't prominently featured. Georgetown, Cuse and St. John's were the big three rivals. Nova earned their stripes in '85 with a great season and beating Georgetown for the NC. Btw, I really enjoyed Easy Ed Pinckney's commentary. Found him very entertaining.
While ESPN may have been intending to highllight the death of the Big East, the show just chronicled the terrific, even historic, rise of a great league. Right now, we are simply going through a rebirth. Three great new programs (with a couple more to come) and a return to what this league was founded on.
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