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ACC, Big East plan to meet in football

By Omar Kelly

Staff Writer

Posted May 5 2005

With the legal battles between the Big East and Atlantic Coast Conference concluded and most of the ill feelings subsided, Miami intends on forging new partnerships with its former conference members.

UM Athletic Director Paul Dee would not discuss details of the settlement that ended a two-year legal battle because of a confidentiality agreement. But Dee called the four Big East schools -- UConn, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and West Virginia -- that sued Miami and Boston College for defecting to the ACC "good teams and good friends."

"It's wonderful to have all of these issues resolved," Dee said. "Now it's going to open up opportunities for future games, especially with the 12th game. This really helps us with scheduling."

According to the Hartford Courant, as part of the settlement that was finalized on April 27, the ACC and Big East also agreed to the scheduling of nine football games between 2008 and 2012, including a home-and-home series between UConn and Virginia. It's likely UM will be involved in those series.

Dee has previously spoken about his desire to schedule games against Pittsburgh and Rutgers, two schools in areas of the country where UM has a strong alumni base and a large pool of prospective students.

The $5 million settlement, which came as a result of mediation, also frees Boston College to leave the Big East on June 30 and join the ACC on July 1. Miami and Virginia Tech left the Big East and joined the ACC for the 2004-2005 season, which triggered the initial wave of lawsuits that blamed Miami officials and the ACC for conspiring to weaken the Big East by luring away its biggest football powers.

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Um, so the legacy Big East teams are crafting their own benefit while the new Big East members are left looking for quality OOC games?

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The settlement specifies home-and-home series between Florida State and West Virginia, North Carolina and Rutgers, North Carolina State and Pittsburgh, and Virginia and UConn.

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I wonder if we (the Big East) could make a deal with the SEC to have a Big East/SEC shootout in basketball in exchange for a football home and home agreement?

Think about it.  12 of our basketball teams playing the 12 SEC teams every year.  8 of the SEC's football teams playing our football teams.

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May 05 2005

Part of settlement is WVU football series with Seminoles

By The Associated Press

BOSTON -- The Big East and Atlantic Coast Conference are ready to stop fighting and start playing football again.

As part of a multimillion dollar settlement over the defection of three schools, the conferences have scheduled nine additional football games from 2008-12, including a home-and-home series between West Virginia and Florida State. The two schools met in the Gator Bowl in January, with the Seminoles' Bobby Bowden prevailing over his former school, 30-18. The only other previous meeting between the schools was a 1982 Gator Bowl win by Florida State, 31-12.

The settlement, first reported by The Hartford Courant, was also obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The agreement didn't specify how much each Big East school will receive, but a UConn bank statement obtained by the AP shows that $1 million was deposited on April 27, the day the settlement was finalized, by the law firm assigned to distribute the cash.

"The state of Connecticut and the University of Connecticut have made a tremendous investment in the university's football program,'' UConn president Philip E. Austin and athletic director Jeff Hathaway said in a statement. "Initiating this litigation was one part of a larger effort to protect that investment.''

The settlement bars the parties from discussing the terms or even announcing an agreement unless required to do so. The Courant obtained the settlement through Connecticut's open records law; a copy was also obtained by the AP.

The newspaper reported that the total value of the settlement was $5 million. While not directly addressing the report, ACC lawyer Erik Albright said in a statement: "Reports suggesting the extent to which the ACC contributed to the settlement are inaccurate and misleading. We are limited by the express terms of the agreement from commenting further.''

The ACC courted several Big East schools in 2003 in an attempt to expand to 12 teams and hold a lucrative conference championship. Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College were eventually invited to join the Greensboro, N.C.-based conference; commissioner John Swofford likened the acquisition of BC to "a good marriage.''

But, as these things sometimes go, BC was still married to someone else.

Complaining that they spent millions of dollars to upgrade their programs based on the presumed loyalty of the defectors, four Big East schools that were left behind sued. In a flurry of lawsuits and countersuits, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal accused Miami and Boston College of conspiring with the ACC to weaken the Big East by luring away some of its biggest football powers.

The settlement includes the $1 million exit fee Boston College was required to pay the Big East under the league's constitution. Miami and Virginia Tech have already joined the ACC, and Boston College is now cleared to join on July 1.

But this divorce also includes visitation, a sign that the conferences are willing to put their bitterness aside when it's in their mutual financial interest.

In addition to Florida State and West Virginia, the settlement also specifies home-and-home series between North Carolina and Rutgers, North Carolina State and Pittsburgh, and Virginia and Connecticut. Miami will receive an appearance fee of $225,000 for playing at Pittsburgh on Sept. 11, 2010.

The presidents of Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and West Virginia signed off on the agreement, which drops lawsuits between the conferences, their member schools and officers.

Both commissioners also endorsed the deal.

The loss of BC, Miami and Virginia Tech prompted the Big East to look elsewhere to rebuild its ranks. This fall, the conference will add football members Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida to round out the eight-member league.

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and what about new BE teams?

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That's what bothers me, the old BE teams threw a shut out at the new members....

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Those were the only ones that were plaintifs in the suit.  Syracuse isn't part of the settlement either.

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Correct, only the schools that sued got games. However, I suspect other games will be crafted in the future. In the mean time, I think the settlement was lousy for those schools that sued. I am sure more money was spent on the lawsuit than was recived in return. For all we went through, Uconn recieved $1 million and a home/away series with UVA. This doesn't make this Uconn fan very happy. Just he same, it WAS inthe best interesets of the Big East to settle the matter and move on. I suppose we won the public image battle as it shows that, in settling, that the ACC did something wrong. It would be great if the Big East could capitalize on this, but part of the settlement was that the BE & ACC would not comment on it.

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