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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3934007, member: 1145"] I guess it should come as no surprise that you are ignorant of this process and of Notre Dame's essential role, right from the very start. In the old days, there was 1 TV contract. And the CFA and ABC carved up the country, deciding which states and TV markets would show which games. The Big Ten basically had the run of the house, and the Pac as the BT's kept boy had second fiddle. For example, in regional telecast, it was standard for the entire northeast to be given a BT game, that includes Maryland and DC, even when you had ranked Terp or Panthers or Nittany Lions or Orangemen or Mountaineers playing. The Pac usually was given everything from the Rockies to Hawaii. The BT also usually was on in Louisville. National broadcasts had at least 1 BT team at least 50% of the time. That process was broken first when CBS was allowed to show games. The first was preseason #1 Pitt hosting #5 UNC. It was a classic. That game was chosen not just for the rankings of the two teams but because anybody with any sense knew that the two groups that had been most screwed, and held back, by the old deal were the ACC and the northeastern independents. The BT never got over its anger at losing is monopoly control of CFB TV across the northeast, down into VA. That is the reason that the BT Presidents acted to bring in Penn St. As PSU had the only large football game attendance in the northeast, the BT knew that if the BT had PSU, the BT would claim all of the northeast once again. It was the BT Presidents that wanted that extra money and TV exposure. Most BT ADs and almost all BT football and basketball coaches opposed PSU joining the BT. In fact, the opposition was so fierce that the offer was rescinded for a few days so the Presidents could win over their ADs and coaches. Everybody knew what the BT was doing and why. The richest conference was pursuing even more riches, and that meant that everybody else would have to become proactive of get left behind. Almost everybody else was willing to keep the basic system but with some kind of lid on the BT, making certain that teams from all regions got TV exposure. But Notre Dame decided to sign an independent TV deal. And that sent everything into overdrive. The Big Ten and then Notre Dame - in that order - caused all the rest. [/QUOTE]

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