Five quick reactions to the 2016-17 Big East schedule release

Let’s digest quickly and unhealthily shall we?The Big East schedule was dropped on Tuesday afternoon. Why waste time in analyzing things when you can make hasty overreactions? Let’s make a few right now, shall we?

1. The National TV schedule is LOADED: One quick glance at the national broadcasts featuring Big East teams this year generates quite a lot of excitement. In total, 15 games will be televised on big FOX and CBS, with 13 confirmed games on the former and two games on the latter.

The CBS games are pretty terrific as Notre Dame and Villanova will have a December 10 encounter in Newark, and then a month later, Georgetown will travel to Cincinnati to take on the Xavier Musketeers on the…