Have seen several references over on Twitter, but Mike DeCourcy over at SportingNews wrote about it earlier.
Link is -- About Villanova's Win
Read the entire article. Good stuff.
DeCourcy (ie the press present) covered all of the previous talking points:
1. Kansas has been equally crappy the past 2-3 seasons and no one noticed.
2. Arch is the man.
3. Villanova's offense is awesome.
But Decourcy ends his article with the quote that has been circulating for the past hour:
“I just think football,” Wright said. “The Power 5 are football conferences, built for football, and some of them — like the ACC — are also great basketball conferences.
“We’re just a basketball league. Our league is all basketball, our schools, our tradition — it’s basketball. It’s for basketball purists.”
The media has had a hard time figuring out just what the heck the Big East is now that the football schools are gone. That ESPN, who now has zero motivation to "assist" the rest of the media in fashioning a proper niche for the Big East in the NCAA sports pantheon has not been lost on Big East fans, but perhaps on the rest of the ink and electronic media. If Villanova can keep this run going maybe, aside from the obvious, Coach Wright will have additional opportunities to make the case for the conference. The definition is not written is stone if guys like DeCoursy can get it.
Link is -- About Villanova's Win
Read the entire article. Good stuff.
DeCourcy (ie the press present) covered all of the previous talking points:
1. Kansas has been equally crappy the past 2-3 seasons and no one noticed.
2. Arch is the man.
3. Villanova's offense is awesome.
But Decourcy ends his article with the quote that has been circulating for the past hour:
“I just think football,” Wright said. “The Power 5 are football conferences, built for football, and some of them — like the ACC — are also great basketball conferences.
“We’re just a basketball league. Our league is all basketball, our schools, our tradition — it’s basketball. It’s for basketball purists.”
The media has had a hard time figuring out just what the heck the Big East is now that the football schools are gone. That ESPN, who now has zero motivation to "assist" the rest of the media in fashioning a proper niche for the Big East in the NCAA sports pantheon has not been lost on Big East fans, but perhaps on the rest of the ink and electronic media. If Villanova can keep this run going maybe, aside from the obvious, Coach Wright will have additional opportunities to make the case for the conference. The definition is not written is stone if guys like DeCoursy can get it.
