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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The way we're scheduling now is not the right way to do it. We are committed to having everybody playing everybody else at least once.
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Five new members makes us not only bigger, but better in terms of overall depth.
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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.
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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've got people out there working on this, they've spent an enormous amount of time on it already. I'm pretty optimistic what we craft will be better than what we have.
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I can tell you that our coaches and athletic directors and presidents have all told me in the strongest terms where they want to be long term is they want everybody playing everybody at least once, ... They feel very strongly that if you're going to be in a conference, that any team not to be playing another team is just not the right thing to do. We have some of that right now and I think we're uncomfortable with that but we were left with little choice.
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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 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.
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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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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.