College basketball 2009-10 running thread No. 1

Depaul fired Wainright.

 

Can St. John's be next? Please??

 

That's simply not fair. There was no way that man was going to beat Mississippi State earlier this year.
Now they fire him?
Sheesh.

 

Maybe the Big East should fire DePaul and find someone to replace it who plays both football and basketball, like Memphis, because DePaul is destined to be a disaster.

 

Well, the division between football and non-football schools in the Big East will be dealt with at some point.

 

I don't think it would need to be if, and this is obviously a big if, they could fire someone like DePaul and then bring in a team like Memphis and then get either Notre Dame or Villanova to join in to give the league ten football teams.

 

And now Oregon State -- which lost by 51 to SEATTLE UNIVERSITY -- breaks a 16-game skid at Mac Court to beat the Ducks. This might be the 12th-best conference in the country.

 

My God. How does that happen?

Would anyone really be surprised if UCLA found a way to win this league?

 

Seriously. Urp.

 

ASU sweeps the Washington schools, and I know it is small potatoes, but respectable hoops in a down year at ASU is so nice to have.

Thank you very much NC State.

 

Eventually the Big East will implode. It's been held by bubble gum, duct tape and MacGuyver-esque ingenuity for longer than I would have imagined, but there's always going to be a public/Catholic school and/or football/non-football schism.

The football schools would, I imagine, keep the Big East moniker and leave us with West Virginia, Syracuse, UConn, Rutgers, South Florida, Cincinnati, Pitt and Louisville. They could stay as is or add four schools to get the conference title game (East Carolina, Central Florida, Memphis and ... hell if I know. Maybe they can hold on until Georgia State goes FBS so they can get into Atlanta). Also possibly Villanova if they ever move to FBS.

I could see DePaul dropping to the Horizon or MVC at some point (along with St. Louis from the A-10, because both are odd geographic fits). Marquette possibly as well, though they still have higher ambitions and have recent success to buoy them. Possibly a new midwestern private school league (Marquette, DePaul, Notre Dame, St. Louis, Dayton, Xavier, Butler, someone else). Then the private Northeast schools create their own league, maybe adding Richmond or ... Richmond).

None of this will happen.