Back in the 1980s, the Big East helped make basketball what it is today, with players like Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin, coaches such as John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca, and its league tournament at Madison Square Garden. After this season, the conference as we know it will be history thanks to massive realignment that has overtaken college sports over the last few years. But the conference certainly isn't going quietly.Housing. The boom and bust in real estate is what torpedoed the economy in the first place, and the economy won start to recover until the housing bubble deflates. The good news is that housing prices have already been falling for more than two years.

Teams and OffenseEach team fields 11 players at a time, with the offensive team attempting to advance the ball down the field and the defensive team trying to prevent this. The offensive side revolves around the center, who snaps the ball back to start play, and the quarterback, who receives this snap and e