hoyahooligan wrote:There's a big difference between the Big East and every other conference. In most conferences the Regular season crown is the most coveted and most fans do not care about the conference tournament crown.
FriarJ wrote:If Marquette fans want to think the BE regular season championship is more important (I didn't even realize there was such a thing) that's their prerogative, but the BE was made at MSG and any hopes of future success to rival what it was will be made there as well. You may not want to admit it, but the BE Tournament champion far and away outshines anything that happened in the regular season. All of the fans of the original 5 will back this up I'm sure.
When they are discussing records and what team did what, they never mention regular season, they only mention the BET championships, it's all that ever mattered and I suspect and hope it is all that will matter going forward.
In the end, nobody and I mean nobody remembers who won the regular season. That's not to take away from whoever does it because they obviously have a great team, but this is an urban league and it has always been about who shines under the bright lights in NY.
I have been in this from the very beginning of the league and it's the truth whether the 5 schools with no actual BET tradition want to admit it. The recruiting pitch has always been come here and try and win this tournament, not come here and we will battle for the regular season crown.
MUBoxer wrote:...First, say depaul wins the BE tournament one of those really really bad years you think people are going to remember that over say a team that went undefeated in conference play...
FriarJ wrote:You want to throw insults, that's your choice. I'm simply offering an opinion based upon 30 years of this league and it's tournament. You have another opinion and once again that's your choice, good luck to your team this year. I'm bagging out now when this shite starts.
FriarJ wrote:This: Last time I checked your team was getting owned while my team was a actually competing and adding to the success of the old BE
Plus if you had read more clearly, I said BET tradition, not BE
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