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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 288098, member: 780"]
Wow! A great interview. A veritable goldmine of good information and insight into the thinking.
 
Not much "spin" in that. Of course, he's going to put things in a positive light when he can. But most of this was solid information about the thinking. (I can see the "facts" for myself. What I really want to know is what the logic behind the thinking is.)
 
Everyone on this board ought to listen carefully to what was being said by Gross.
 
SU's "cache" is a key asset. That's the public view of the school and its teams. "Cache" is a product the history and tradition. Commodities which our northeastern competitors are in short supply of. (Some have negative cache.)
 
I especially liked the "apples and oranges" comment about comparing TV deals. All I was hearing previously was the gross TV contract value.
 
The three game deal with PSU was interesting and SU's creativity in crafting a "Home, Home and Neutral" game. The point was that without the "neutral site" game, we might not have been able to get the home game.
 
He certainly gets the importance of a NYC-area presence and attacking the Big East's "conference uncertainty". Based on this, SU would certainly not be in favor of adding Rutgers or UConn to the ACC, The Ray Rice deal still stings and it might end up biting RU in the azz in the longer term.
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