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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 391067, member: 27"]
With the old BE contract, the all-sports-except-football schools got about 50% of what the all-sports-including-football schools got.  It will be interesting to see what happens with the new contract, especially with the addition of football only schools to the mix. 
 
From everything I have read, the real world rights for basketball are much lower than for football, which could lead to a scenario where the new football only schools make more money than the long time member schools that do not play BE football (i.e. schools like Georgetown, Villanova, St John's, etc.).
 
It was reported that in recent meetings, the the non football schools were pushing during league meetings for this round of negotiations to get the same money as the football schools. 
 
The biggest challenge for the Big East now is, I think, to deal with the enormous gap between what the non football schools think they should get and what the open market says they are worth.  If you think the schools that play football are going to be unhappy with the new BE contract, wait until the basketball schools see reality in cold, hard numbers.  They are the ones who were too greedy to take the $130 million ESPN offered initially.  If they had, they would have a lot more money for their athletic programs and Syracuse, Pitt and West Virginia would still be in the fold. 
 
Worst sports decision of the decade?  Maybe.
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