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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 281578, member: 780"] You clearly also have some experience in this. But I think you are jumping to conclusions. You may be right, but it seems like a "shot int he dark" If anyone understands TV and college sports it's probably Notre Dame which has made the lion jump through hoops for decades. On consultants, I have seen it work both ways. Clearly "Lets bring some consultants in to cover our ass on this" is a big favorite. But, I have also seen it happen when top management didn't have a clue on what strategic alternative to follow and didn't have the resources to do a thorough job of laying out the alternatives and presenting a solution. I am very familar of a situation in which a major US diversified products (similar to but smaller than GE) wanted to improve profitability and grow revenue. Because they had largely undiferentiated products that were purchased via specifications and "bids", it was hard to grow both revenue and profits. The consultants came in (McKinsey) and recommended differention via expanding associated services and a new marketing organization that targeted specific growth industries. It was a textbook approach. So the manufacturer implemented these rather expensive "fixes" which produced almost nothing. The problem they hadn't seen and didn't understand was that there were no changes is sales compensation nor was there any sales process in place to "force" the sales organization to target these new growth opportunities. I actually doubt the Big East knws what they want to do. The AD's are better suited for negotiation contracts for towel service and managing guys who line the fields. The Presidents are off doing 1,000 other things. The league office --- which was supposed to be doing the strategy piece --- has been exposed as incompetent buffoons. [/QUOTE]

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