Ranking the Big East coaching jobs....

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1. St johns. In my opinion the #1 job in the country. And for those of you who dont understand why one would say this, just go back to your hole and agree to disagree

2. Villanova. Great institutional support in a major market with an elite school that has a country club feel and great fan support with great tradition. I also bias schools that play some of their games at nba arenas in big cities (see my #1 pick)

3. Marquette. One of the largest basketball operating budgets in the nation, passionate fan support, huge attendance, great facilitities, premiere program in their region. Whats not to like?

4. Georgetown. Similar to Villanova, elite country club school with great tradition and the nba arena in a major east coast city, but a little less passion from the fan base.

5. Xavier. You get a packed Cintas Center every night, best program in Ohio, great institutional support and fans

6. DePaul. You could rank this one as high as #2 or as low as #10. Really should be one of the top jobs in the country, especially with the new arena, but the athletic department is so poorly run and the past decade has alienated so many fans that it is such a huge rebuilding job.

7. Butler. Historic Hinkle fieldhouse, family atmosphere program, but needs to continue to grow its brand out of the big east

8. Creighton. Premiere program in their state, top notch facilities, history if producing nba players, but needs to continue to grow its brand out of the big east.

9. Providence. The facilities are actually beautiful, the fan base is fantastic, but its an afterthought/minor league city and not in the best recruiting hotbed. Lacking national brand recognition after the tim welsh years

10. Seton Hall. New Jersey's top program with a great arena. But the arena is in newark and the school is in south orange new jersey. Fans are also extremely fickle. Recruiting hotbed if you can make it work.




The big east doesnt have that top end kentucky or duke type job, but really unlike any other conference where all ten of the jobs are pretty awesome.

This list is bad..... Real bad... Too much weight on location, as opposed to the actual job. SJU as the best job in the county? It's not even a slam dunk for top half of the conference. Depaul as 6..... Even with the new arena, they weren't able to attract a top tier hire.

But yes, I agree with most posters that there is a lot of parity in terms of attractiveness of each job. There aren't a lot of bad jobs in the conference. No disrespect meant to SJU or Depaul. All disrespect pointed to the list maker.