Orlando Classic (Xavier) Bracket Set

[DudeAnon]

Thanks as well.

Perhaps it's not as easy as it is to point it out, but taking away the Dayton trolls and putting a cap on stever20's "value-added" contributions would clean-up the problem immensely. In essence, you're dealing with posters who are petty and jealous of what we have going on collectively in the Big East.

You really don't see the true Big East fans here being petty. I don't see anyone asking about the whereabouts of the Bearcat Bounce dude to get his reaction to his coach's technical last night, or about his reaction to Butler's wonderful win in the Queen City. We just let stuff like that speak for itself.

I don't have the time to moderate, but I'll certainly look to change from responding to idiot posters, though they're easy targets. Ignoring them most of the time will be a better use of my time. Their envy and lack of perspective is their problem anyway.

Jealousy is really the perfect word to summarize the troll's behavior. You will notice we don't see Syracuse, WVU or Notre Dame trolls. They are all relatively happy with their conference affiliation. The only troll fanbase missing is really UCONN. But their program is so successful that they are sort of in a win-win situation. They can weather the AAC storm until they are picked up by a football conference or join the Big East. Either way, their basketball program will be fine.

[mpwalsh8]

If Big East is going to expand to 12, there are only a few acceptable candidates. And most of them aren't interested.

Outside of the Duke/Kansas/UCLA/UNC/Michigan State completely off the wall type candidates, the following are the only schools I would think about adding to the Big East at this time:

UConn
Gonzaga
Notre Dame
Boston College
Syracuse

And I fully understand the latter 3 have about 0% chance of ever happening. So really the only two teams out there that could move the needle enough to go from 10 to 12 teams are Gonzaga and UConn.

St. Louis, Dayton, BYU type teams are interesting, but not enough to mess with the good thing going on now.

I would put Wake Forest on that list too. There AD had been quoted about being concerned with WF's ability to keep up with the Football spend.

[anXUfan]

Would love Wake.

[BEX]

So NOBODY > Xavier > Dayton > Monmouth > UCLA > UK

[XUFan09]

So NOBODY > Xavier > Dayton > Monmouth > UCLA > UK

Q.E.D.

[marquette]

So NOBODY > Xavier > Dayton > Monmouth > UCLA > UK

The math looks solid to me. Honestly I haven't been super impressed by UK this season. They are still very good but #1 felt like a stretch this season.