I haven't seen the movie and I'm not familiar with the characters, although I do know the bare outline of the plot. From the trailer alone, I found it compelling and I'm interested in watching it now.

I'd rather make jokes about how putrid SLAT is than cry about Bunheads again.

That was most definitely not my reaction.

I'm not into the whole "giving Yahoo my phone number" thing, because what the fuck, so I made an ESPN bracket group. The password is humanbeings.

I want to watch a nature documentary animated by Adam Reed.

Oh, yeah, Maryland was literally segregated until after the war. The university doesn't exactly have a proud history on that front.

When you think about a 6'2" NBA player, you know that they're there because they worked harder at basketball than everyone else. Basketball is their life. For a 7'2" NBA player, on the other hand, that's not necessarily the case. If you're that height and you have some sort of mobility, basketball is just something…

Yes, it happened two weeks later, largely as a reaction to the admission of Tulane. (Marquette's AD complained very publicly about what playing Tulane would do to the school's RPI in a radio interview shortly after Tulane's admission was announced.) That's the whole point.

I was unaware that Marxist academics were in charge of collegiate athletic programs. Who knew?

Oh, I do.

Did socialism kill the Big East? One would think that socialism is really not a factor in college sports at all, given that it operates in a capitalistic system, but what do any of us know?

Has Rutgers ever had sustained success in anything? That university has turned failing upward into an art form. When the highlight of your athletic program is the Greg Schiano era, you've got issues. I'm embarrassed as a member of the Maryland community to be associated with them.

If that was clear to you at the time, then you were clairvoyant. At that point it appeared that the Big East was no longer viable as a conference, but what that meant was still very much in the air. Note that no contemporary sources mention the non-football schools leaving to form a new conference, which would be…

As was pointed out elsewhere, the Big East killed the Big 5. The Palestra doesn't mean shit anymore. It's the circle of capitalism, and of course that doesn't even take into account the fact that Providence and St. John's and Seton Hall and Villanova and Georgetown still play each other twice a year.

It came from the fact that the Big East was terrible and routinely gave its championship to middling teams. It's undeniable that the Big East in the '90s was an excellent football conference, but by around 2008 or 2009 the fact that it continued to have an automatic bid was an embarrassment to everyone involved. ESPN…

Tulane joined the Big East Conference on November 27, 2012. (link)

I thought this was a pretty excellent review, personally. I liked the documentary in general, but this sums up pretty well what bothered me about it:

Of course there are plenty of non-football conferences; beyond the Big East, the most prominent is the misleadingly-named Atlantic 10, followed by the WCC and MVC. They're not really huge-name conferences, but there just aren't that many big-name basketball schools that don't also have I-A football; outside of the…

Really I wouldn't mind a whole film just about Georgetown basketball. It's always amused me how unrepresentative the basketball team is of the Georgetown student body, and that was even more true in the '80s.

Connecticut made the jump to top-level football and so they were swept away when the tide came in. They can't go to the new Big East because there's no place for their football program there, so they're stuck with the likes of Tulane and East Carolina. Villanova's lucky that they didn't do the same thing when they…