Yikes: Big EAST Media Contract needs Viagra...

[arbitragegls]

this would kill the BE off fast if true. Dodds over at CBSsports.com is putting this out:

The deal could be worth no more than $60mm-$80mm/yr...that is less than $6mm averagely for each school...and that $6mm could be for the combo schools. Nearly all of the new school entries have out clauses if dollars dont meet expectation...OUCH!

Glad to be 'Cuse and not in BE!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...uld-be-worth-as-little-as-60-million-per-year

 

[TexanMark]

Actually to the MWC schools it is still better...and where can Cincy and UConn go? They need SJU, Nova, and GTown.

 

[MaxwellCuse]

Who is going to write the book about the Rise and Fall of the Big East? It is going to be both fascinating and a best seller. Who was it that killed the media deal with ESPN last year? Seems like everyone from Georgetown to Pitt to Rutgers to Notre Dame gets the blame. Can't pin that one on Syracuse at least.

P.S. Glad we're out!

 

[HtownOrange]

The dream of a northeastern based all sports conference dies the death of a thousand cuts. Loved it while it lasted, time to move on. Never could justify in my mind how Boise State and San Diego State could be in an eastern conference. Don't get me wrong, the San Diego trips could be used as a recruiting tool, but still not a part of the conference.

 

[orangeinjersey]

Who is going to write the book about the Rise and Fall of the Big East? It is going to be both fascinating and a best seller. Who was it that killed the media deal with ESPN last year? Seems like everyone from Georgetown to Pitt to Rutgers to Notre Dame gets the blame. Can't pin that one on Syracuse at least.

P.S. Glad we're out!

Would kill to read this book. Tranghese should write it.

 

[bnoro]

Who is going to write the book about the Rise and Fall of the Big East? It is going to be both fascinating and a best seller. Who was it that killed the media deal with ESPN last year? Seems like everyone from Georgetown to Pitt to Rutgers to Notre Dame gets the blame. Can't pin that one on Syracuse at least.

P.S. Glad we're out!

make it a documentary like the Rise and Fall of ECW

 

[44PRIDE]

Honestly, the BBall schools must be thinking of a way out...aren't they?

They must be at that point. Ask Cinci and UConn to stay on for BBall and other sports and drop football completely.

At least the BBall side would still sell some tickets.

 

[Madbiker]

Would kill to read this book. Tranghese should write it.

If Tranghese wrote it, it would be all about how he was a genius and everyone else were complete idiots, other conferences didn't play fair, and how football ruined everything.

 

[rrlbees]

With the exception of a couple schools, that's some good coin.

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[zls44]

Would kill to read this book. Tranghese should write it.

IT'S DEFINITELY NOT MY FAULT by Mike Tranghese

 

[HtownOrange]

Honestly, the BBall schools must be thinking of a way out...aren't they?

They must be at that point. Ask Cinci and UConn to stay on for BBall and other sports and drop football completely.

At least the BBall side would still sell some tickets.

The BB onlies would rate as a very good/excellent hoops conference with good markets. They will survive one way or another. They can even add a few other hoops schools and be what the Big East has been historically, or close enough. Your suggestion of dropping football and keeping UConn and Cincy is a very good idea.

 

[PeteCalvin]

this would kill the BE off fast if true. Dodds over at CBSsports.com is putting this out:

The deal could be worth no more than $60mm-$80mm/yr...that is less than $6mm averagely for each school...and that $6mm could be for the combo schools. Nearly all of the new school entries have out clauses if dollars dont meet expectation...OUCH!

Glad to be 'Cuse and not in BE!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...uld-be-worth-as-little-as-60-million-per-year

And to think the BE brass allowed the deal from summer 2011 to be voted down. That would have netted each football school nearly $12 mil a year, IIRC. Allowing that TV deal to fall off the table was the death knell of the BE. It most likely would not have saved the BE from expansion poachers, but it would have had teams like SU and Pitt thinking harder about the move.

Stupid BE schools. Stupid stupid stupid. Should have listened to Dr. Gross. A bird in hand...

 

[orange79]

I am beginning to wonder about Pernetti. He was the one who led the charge to hold off signing the ESPN offer. I wonder how much he knew about the B1G possibility at that point. If he knew it was coming (or had been given assurances that there was a good chance it was coming), he may have led the charge to wait because 1) he had a good chance of landing in the Promised Land, and 2) if the B1G didn't come calling, he thought he had a good chance of securing the open market deal.