Big East's tumultuous run doomed from the get-go  Les Carpenter
Yahoo Sports  From the moment it was born, the Big East was a
dead league walking. Even through its best years, the whole
thing felt like an arranged marriage made for network
boardrooms. Now that it is ending, the biggest surprise isn't
that the Big East has fallen apart for good, but rather that it
lasted for 34 years.  On Tuesday, the conference begins its
final tournament in its current form. Then again, it's hard to
know what form that is exactly. The Big East has been many
things in its existence – a union of small Northeastern
basketball schools, a football league, a haphazard hybrid of
both. Each reinvention was another attempt to resuscitate a
league that was never going to be saved. Its demise was only a
matter of time.  View photo   UConn coach Jim Calhoun reacts
during the 2011 Big East tournament. (Getty)  The problem with
the Big East is that it started as an experiment. Could the best
basketball schools from Boston to Washington fo