I haven’t glanced at what’s happening at the Big East offices in a while. Looks like I missed plenty.
It’s Hall of Fame time.
BIG EAST Conference Commissioner MICHAEL A. TRANGHESE has been formally inducted into the Rhode Island Italian-American Hall of Fame.
Tickets were only $100 (VIP tickets $200) for the June 29 event. I was about to make some joke about holding this event in the closet of the Kirkbrae Country Club when I looked at the other honorees. They were also honoring a national guardsman and some guy who plays football for the New England Patriots. Bruschi or something like that. Call me a cynic but I don’t think most were attending to meet Tranghese.
Of course the bigger hall of fame event is for Big East founder Dave Gavitt who is getting inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Since not everyone can get to that, the Big East has decided to host a special “one of a kind event” (their words, not mine).
The BIG EAST Conference will honor its founder and future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee DAVE GAVITT by hosting a very special tribute event at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence on Aug. 10 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The conference office has scheduled this special tribute because tickets to the enshrinement ceremony in Springfield, Mass. are extremely limited.
In order to purchase tickets at a cost of $100 per person…
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In addition, the conference office will also assemble a very special and unique “video tribute book,” which will run on a loop during the event. It is designed to allow both individuals and organizations to offer their formal congratulations and best wishes to Dave and his wife Julie and also help to offset some of the costs associated with the event.
To do the video tribute only costs you $500 per slide — power point only, please. And make sure you get your order in by August 1 so they can review the submission. Darn the luck, I’ll be unable to make the event. Thank goodness on the order form (PDF) you can check a box saying you are only making a donation but can’t attend. No mention of an open bar either.
The Big East also made some staff changes of 4 grinning white guys.
BIG EAST Commissioner Michael Tranghese has announced four staff changes. Jim Siedliski has been promoted to Associate Commissioner for Olympic Sports and Shawn Murphy has been promoted to Director of Men’s Basketball Operations. In addition, former interns Jason DeAngelis (Compliance) and Ben Fairclough (Communications) have been added in a full-time capacity. DeAngelis will now serve as Assistant Director for Compliance, while Fairclough will be Assistant Director for Internet Publicity and Promotions.
The most shocking thing. One of the 4 actually came from outside of New England. Okay, that may be the second most shocking thing. Mr. Fairclough holds a masters degree from Slippery Rock. Slippery Rock offers post-graduate degrees? In sports management?
