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.
bowl doubt empathy fabulous football game hard michigan rose sit understand usc
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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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.
hearing
I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'
guy says
I'm just not the kind of guy who says I told you so.
education represent understand
If I were IBM, I'd understand it. I'm not IBM. I represent 14 educational institutions.
apologize conference
I have nothing to apologize for. My conference has nothing to apologize for.
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I never talked about numbers with our people, ... I just said obviously with the kind of quality that we have there's no reason to think that we can't generate more teams qualifying for the tournament. I think this is historical. This is a path that no one's ever traveled before, this many good teams in one league. What's it going to lead to?
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We have a couple more who if we were voting today would probably get in, ... and I'll match the strength of our coaches with any league in the country.
five members overall terms
Five new members makes us not only bigger, but better in terms of overall depth.
cincinnati excited inside invited ncaa outside quality teams wins
We are very excited for our teams that have been invited to the NCAA Championship, but we are disappointed that Cincinnati was not included. They had some quality wins inside and outside the conference.
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We had pretty high expectations before the season. You hope it's right, but I don't know if anybody could have written a better script than how it turned out.
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We have done significant research and analysis into the use of instant replay for our conference football games for the coming season. We are pursuing what we think will be the best possible system for the coming season.
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Everybody keeps telling me we're too big. We're all too big. We're just bigger than others.