<p>I saw a thread similar to this earlier about the Big Ten and it had a lot of great information. I was just wondering the same thing, except about the Big East? Stereotypes, academics, sports, anything, really, that you guys can think of. Thanks a ton!</p>
<p>Big East*</p>
<p>Syracuse - Newhouse
G-Town - School of Foreign Service
Notre Dame (in Big East for B-Ball) - Football
West Virginia - Party School, home of Pat White
Louisville - Top Football recruit from my HS class is going there.</p>
<p>…Yall’s turn.</p>
<p>*all known for Basketball, be it now or in the past.</p>
<p>Georgetown- Foreign Lang. School, Capital city
Louisville- Killer cheerleading…
WVU- partyyy, pat white</p>
<p>University of Cincinnati is mainly known for its Conservatory of Music and DAAP schools (design, architecture, art, and planning). Plus, they have a decent football team. Their basketball team was excellent in the 90s when Bob Huggins was coach.</p>
<p>Cincinnati has lots of normal coop students and some insanely, disturbingly talented musicians.</p>
<p>Notre Dame - enough said
Georgetown - DC’s most elite school with great alumni and renowned programs in the humanities and law
UConn - party school
Pitt - probably the best public u in the Big East…like a smaller, more urban version of Michigan
Seton Hall - it’s just known as a tiny but quaint college
Syracuse - Journalism…and being a faded athletic powerhouse
Villanova - Catholic school, awesome at basketball
Rutgers - known for the first football game, and for being a backup school
WVU - party school, probably the football powerhouse of the Big East
Cincy - good architecture and city planning programs
Marquette - Catholic school, awesome at basketball
Louisville - surprisingly diverse student body, however a second-rate state school</p>
<p>St. John’s, Providence, DePaul, South Florida, and anyone else too obscure for me to have remembered is too unimportant and insignificant to have any reputation that they’re “known” for.</p>
<p>*Notre Dame only participates in the Big East for basketball which requires that you be in a conference, but it can be any conference. They probably would have joined the Big Ten if they would have let them join only for basketball (more prestigious conf, less difficult schedule for basketball season). Notre Dame cherishes its independence from any conference in other sports, most notably, football.</p>
<p>Ya, Louisville is not that good in terms of academics, however I was born in the ville and I can say it’s a great city. Lots of clubs and tons of great shopping and restaurants. It’s like a highly kept secret, because everybody thinks Kentucky is hicktown but yet they don’t know Louisville is the 7th largest city in the south (bigger than Atlanta).</p>
<p>UConn: Business, Law and Education programs… Probably the best public in the big east.</p>
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<p>WVU - A-a-a-a-a-alcohol and handing out MBAs to donor’s daughters.</p>
<p>Syracuse and UConn share one thing in common-6 overtimes</p>
<p>Georgetown - Most selective/prestigious school in the conference, pre-professional (JD, MD, MBA), basketball school.
Providence - Elite Regional School, Catholic shool, Original member of the Big East, Irish Catholic
Pitt - Good Medical Center, Solid Public School, Good sciences
Seton Hall - 1989 Final Four, small NJ Catholic school, liberal arts
St. Johns - NYC, Law school, strong NY alumni, Madison Square Garden, Basketball tradition, Irish and Italian students from NY outer boroughs. Commuter school. Good soccer team. One of the original members of the Big East.
Syracuse - Communications school, Public Policy, the default New York State flagship state school, Lacrosse, Jim Boeheim.
Villanova - Elite Regional School, Catholic school, Beating Georgetown in the 1985 National Championship
Rutgers - Big NJ state school with IVY League roots
Notre Dame - Very Solid Top 25 academics, Football, The most Catholic of the Catholic schools
Marquette - Good Jesuit School, D. Wade, hoops tradition
Louisville - Rick Pitino, not much known about academics
WVU - Football, Party School, Criminal Justice program
Cincy - New to Big East, not very well known
Depaul - Chicago Catholic school
South Florida - Relatively young school in Florida, not a lot of tradition
Uconn - Avg. state school, Women’s Basketball, Men’s Basketball</p>
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<p>Agree with the rest of the list, but Syracuse is a private school, not a state school.</p>
<p>USF is a young college, part of the state of Florida university system. It is the largest Big East college with over 46,000 students. Big East Conference-wise, USF’s football team surprised a lot of folks with the rapid rise of its football program that only began in 1997.</p>
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<p>Pitt also has one of the most highly regarded Philosophy departments in the nation. And a good honors college.</p>
<p>Georgetown - Arabic studies
Pitt - Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, Cathedral of Learning (Nationality classrooms)
WVU - Psychology Dept. (Applied Behavior Analysis)
Cincinnati - Classics Dept. (highly endowed classics library, etc.)
Rutgers - Grad School of Professional Psych., Douglas College (Developmental Disabilities Center), Don Imus and women’s basketball controversy</p>
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<p>Atlanta has a metro population of 5,729,304. Louisville has a metro population of 1,233,735. With that population, that puts Louisville behind Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Miami, Tampa-St. Pete, Jacksonville, Orlando, Atlanta, and Hampton Roads. So that makes Louisville the 16th largest city in the south. Get outta town.</p>