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The Big Easy, uh, I mean Big East
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<blockquote data-quote="Duquesne Frog" data-source="post: 687112" data-attributes="member: 253"><p>Depends on what you value in a conference. Having kept track of how conferences have done against AQ OOC opponents, aside from this year, the Big East is usually not the worst AQ conference. And while the Big East rarely has four of five in the Top 25 like the SEC or Big 12, but that's as much a function of size as quality (statistically difficult to have half your conference considered among the top 20% in the league) and they also tend to not have the absolute year-in-year-out doormats ... your Baylors, Vanderbilts, Northwesterns. The Big East, including this year, generally has a low statistical variance, which is to say parity. Unlike the MWC or WAC whose member schools run the entire spectrum of college football from top 5 to bottom 5. So when taking a top-to-bottom average, I'm not all that shocked when the Big East isn't rated the worst AQ conference.</p><p></p><p>Point is, when you look at numbers, it's hard to qualitatively show the Big East is significantly inferior year-in-year-out. Perceptually, sure. But then its the perceptual opinions of people that we're constantly trying to fight too. All I ask is that we try to support the perceptions at least a little with some data ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duquesne Frog, post: 687112, member: 253"] Depends on what you value in a conference. Having kept track of how conferences have done against AQ OOC opponents, aside from this year, the Big East is usually not the worst AQ conference. And while the Big East rarely has four of five in the Top 25 like the SEC or Big 12, but that's as much a function of size as quality (statistically difficult to have half your conference considered among the top 20% in the league) and they also tend to not have the absolute year-in-year-out doormats ... your Baylors, Vanderbilts, Northwesterns. The Big East, including this year, generally has a low statistical variance, which is to say parity. Unlike the MWC or WAC whose member schools run the entire spectrum of college football from top 5 to bottom 5. So when taking a top-to-bottom average, I'm not all that shocked when the Big East isn't rated the worst AQ conference. Point is, when you look at numbers, it's hard to qualitatively show the Big East is significantly inferior year-in-year-out. Perceptually, sure. But then its the perceptual opinions of people that we're constantly trying to fight too. All I ask is that we try to support the perceptions at least a little with some data ... [/QUOTE]
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