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...
coaches couple league match strength today voting
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.
coming
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.
adopt atmosphere biggest certain challenge family gathering large means partners people periods stability true word
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.
certain committed keeping
There were certain rivalries that we were committed to keeping intact,
attacked coaches difficult expressed gave incentive national people sincere stood support winning
No two people stood up during those very, very difficult times and expressed such sincere support for the league, ... I know it's something I won't forget. When you're being attacked and you have two high-profile coaches just come off winning national championships it gave a lot of incentive to our league.
committed everybody playing scheduling
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.
basketball college commitment country east fans follow gives opportunity pleased satellite sports throughout truly welcome
XM Satellite Radio's commitment to college sports is extraordinary and we are truly pleased to welcome XM to the BIG EAST family. This partnership gives BIG EAST fans throughout the country the opportunity to follow their teams, especially during our Basketball Championship Tournaments in March.
gain saying talking
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.
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.
generate good lead numbers obviously path quality reason talked teams traveled
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?
ability compete continue help high level
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.