Welcome to On High

Welcome to my humble Big East blog, "On High.” Here I’ll discuss all things BIG East basketball, with a particular emphasis on St. John’s. Why a blog you may ask? Well, I think people were getting tired of my 50,000 word Tweets (curse you Elon for ever giving us the option!!), so I set this up to be more of an outlet for my longer thoughts.

What can you expect? Generally, we’ll be covering all the biggest news and topics in the BIG East. There’ll probably be a weekly gambling post, games to watch, etc. In the immediate short-term, you can expect my team-by-team BIG East breakdowns beginning tomorrow, and going one per day until we’ve hit all 11.

Moving forward, you can expect to see contributions from other writers, probably a BIG East officials power ranking, a BIG East power ranking, perhaps some recruit tracking, some metrics tracking, and more.

The piece de resistance will be a weekly live podcast where I will recap the week that was in the Big East…while high. Hence the title “On High,” because I will literally be on the air high, and of course because of the double entendre with the religious meaning of “on high.” My hope is to have some guests on the podcast, and given that no self-respecting serious journalist or personality, let alone a player, coach, or administrator will join the show as a guest, you can probably expect a lot of me, but also some of your favorite BIG East Twitter personalities to join me as events dictate.

At the end of the day, this is as much an experiment as it is a fully formed idea, so I am fully open to hearing suggestions about site features, blog posts, and other things I should do with the site and podcast.

So buckle up, strap in, grab your favorite strain (Heir Heads or Z Pie for me), grab your favorite alcoholic beverage, or a soda if you’re sober, and let’s have a good time with it.