Mike Tranghese
Mike Tranghese
Michael "Mike" Trangheseis the former commissioner of the Big East Conference and helped create the conference as founder Dave Gavitt's right-hand man in 1979...
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It's hard to sit here and do cartwheels. I understand the USC situation. I have empathy for them. But at the end of the day, I have little doubt that the Rose Bowl game between USC and Michigan will be a fabulous football game.
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It's hard to sit here and do cartwheels, ... I understand the USC situation. I have empathy for them. But at the end of the day, I have little doubt that the Rose Bowl game between USC and Michigan will be a fabulous football game.
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There was so much stability that people were partners for long periods of time. In the true sense of the word, they were conferences, ... I don't know what the word means anymore. My biggest challenge is making certain that this large gathering that we now have can adopt a family atmosphere that we've always had here.
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There were certain rivalries that we were committed to keeping intact,
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The NFL is going to be playing in that Thursday night slot now and ESPN didn't want that game on that night to go against it.
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Then there are other rivalries that are good but that we just couldn't fit in, such as Connecticut-Providence. But because Connecticut is one of our top teams we had to cross over and have them play Syracuse and Louisville.
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They're very ambitious. They're not coming here just to be a part of this league, they're coming to be a significant factor.
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When we began to look at Notre Dame, Marquette, DePaul, Louisville and Cincinnati as well as those schools located in the Northeast, we were also trying to not have people do even more travel,
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I just think me saying anything, all it does, it doesn't help. I don't see what I have to gain by talking about it.
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If you're recruiting against Southern California, Oklahoma or Miami, those are hard recruiting sells. There are a whole bunch of teams in those leagues who are never getting to a BCS game. I told our coaches, every one of you has a chance to win this league and get to a BCS game.
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I don't think it can hurt. I think anything we do to excel, to demonstrate our ability to continue to compete at a high level can only help us.
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This, ... will be the most disastrous blow to intercollegiate athletics in my lifetime.
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When we lost people and sat down and talked about it for the first time, Louisville was always part of those conversations. A big reason why was how much they seemed to want to be here with us.
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We're not going to fail, ... But we're not going to simply succeed because we're 16. Sixteen presents a number of problems, and we're going to be aggressive in dealing with them. But this whole notion that we're too big is nonsense, because three years ago we were 14 and I didn't hear anyone saying we were too big.