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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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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I think there's this public perception that we're under tremendous scrutiny, so I guess that's true, but I have to tell you, I would never have that conversation with West Virginia. I would never impose that extra burden on them.
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People are quick to pass judgments based on the results of games. This is a long-term venture we're involved in. These are college kids playing. When one group outplays the other, they deserve the victory.
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People are quick to pass judgments based on the results of games, ... This is a long-term venture we're involved in. These are college kids playing. When one group outplays the other, they deserve the victory.
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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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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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This, ... will be the most disastrous blow to intercollegiate athletics in my lifetime.
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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.
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Two years ago a lot of people didn't even think our conference was going to make it, ... There was a lot of discussion about separation. ... Two years, for our members, have been pretty difficult. Collectively, we think we have a significant upside.
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To go back originally to the defections, it was as bad a time as a lot of us have ever gone through. There were some days when we didn't even know if there was going to be a league.
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We're not going to be judged on a single game; we're going to be judged over a four-year period, but obviously how West Virginia does against Georgia will have some impact on how we are judged. If I said I was not concerned about it, I'd be misleading you. We're all going to be evaluated, but a lot of the focus is aimed at us.
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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 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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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.