Conference realignment

senior citizen · Post by **senior citizen** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:45 am

I'd appreciate it if someone would post an article in today's NY Times sports section( page 3) on the colossal financial blunder made by the Big East when they turned down an ESPN television rights offer two years ago. They have now accepted an offer which is a small fraction of what they turned down.

Gaber205 · Post by **Gaber205** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:57 am

senior citizen wrote:I'd appreciate it if someone would post an article in today's NY Times sports section( page 3) on the colossal financial blunder made by the Big East when they turned down an ESPN television rights offer two years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/sport ... tball&_r=0

Two years ago, the Big East hoped for television riches. Now that dream is over.
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The Big East will get about $130 million over seven years. That’s a far cry from the deal proposed by ESPN two years ago that would have paid the conference $130 million to $150 million annually for nine years. Hoping for more, the Big East rejected it.

Miami (Oh) Yeah ! · Post by **Miami (Oh) Yeah !** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:04 am

"Several well-placed sources told Washington Post columnist John Feinstein last week that the new league will be divided into Eastern and Western divisions, with SLU, Marquette, DePaul, Xavier, Dayton and Butler in the West and Georgetown, Villanova, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Richmond and Siena in the East."

NO Providence???? Are they not getting invited?

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/ ... f89a4.html

utterlyoptimistic · Post by **utterlyoptimistic** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:58 am

Great, Sienna is going to find themselves in a better basketball conference than we are in. WTF is going on in the world?

Though as mentioned above the lack of Providence really calls into question the "sources" for this article.

Juice Stand · Post by **Juice Stand** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:30 am

I try not to pay too much attention to this realignment business until something concrete comes out, but I'd like to know some opinions from people that know much more about this than I do:

Why are we always talking exclusively about the big east and the possibility of joining or not joining? Why not the ACC? I think it will end up being a better basketball conference and will rekindle the annual rivalry with BC, whether their AD likes it or not.

TheInsider · Post by **TheInsider** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:34 am

Hey if that happens we could win the a-10 every year! Man the A-10 would suck. I don't think the A-10 would survive.

NilesGold · Post by **NilesGold** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:39 am

Juice Stand wrote:Why are we always talking exclusively about the big east and the possibility of joining or not joining? Why not the ACC? I think it will end up being a better basketball conference and will rekindle the annual rivalry with BC, whether their AD likes it or not.

Because getting an invite to the nBE right now is a real possibility, but the ACC is just a pipe dream.

UMass87 · Post by **UMass87** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:49 am

NilesGold - not entirely. The B1G wants to poach UVA and UNC. I don't think any fan in NC wants UNC to leave the ACC but the money may be too good and the legislature could conceivably intervene. Even if the B1G takes only UVA it will start another cascade towards 16-team super conferences (for instance, Miami and FSU to the SEC).

NilesGold · Post by **NilesGold** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:55 am

^ There are probably a lot of other schools higher up on the pecking order than us when it comes to moving up to an ACC type of conference. UConn, Cincinnati, Memphis, Temple. If the ACC does get raided (which is a big if), then yes I'll concede we could be a possibility, but certainly not one I'm holding my breath for. I still call that a pipe dream... maybe a short pipe though.

Chris20 · Post by **Chris20** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:17 am

Calling it a pipedream grossly overrates the chances of it happening.

utterlyoptimistic · Post by **utterlyoptimistic** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:11 am

Nothing new except for the information that the exit fee from the A10 is 2 million.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketba ... good-place

Kosty · Post by **Kosty** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:30 am

Hey, if we're in a world where Siena can be invited to the Catholic Conference.....anything is possible!!!

njumass08 · Post by **njumass08** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:51 am

Siena? Someone pulled that out of their A$$. That's crazy.

SJGMoney · Post by **SJGMoney** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:27 pm

The B1G is going to take GTech from the ACC, I'd bet that's a given. Big TV market in Atlanta. UNC and Virginia bring nothing to the table TV wise and that's all the B1G cares about. BC would be a more likely target, god forbid. Good thing they are way too pompous to join such unwashed masses.

mlaconte459 · Post by **mlaconte459** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:27 pm

Xavier and Butler to joing the big east next year it looks like