The end of the Big East Basketball Conference

[Joe]

Big East TV deal will keep the conference as is. The $$$$ that are going to be going to each school will more than make up for 1 team not making the NCAA Tournament.

It's a good deal, but not so good that teams will be willing to sacrifice NCAA bids for it. (I'm not just talking about Syracuse here)

[South_Florida_Flip]

You would also sacrifice television appearances as well and that is huge. Every single Big East conference game will be on some form of ESPN medium next season. Try getting that deal in a split conference.

[Joe]

Almost every one of those schools has all their games on TV to begin with. While they might not be the deal that associates them with ESPN Regional they do make their way on TV. The "every game will be on TV" deal is great, but the reality is most the teams in our conference (outside of USF) have the most (if not all) of their games on TV in some form.

Considering that, I don't think the idea of being affiliated with ESPN's Regional TV is going to offset a team's desire to make the NCAA's consistently. It's a great deal for USF, schools like Depaul (FSN Chicago), Seton Hall (MSG, FSNY) have it covered.

[South_Florida_Flip]

They may have their games on, but not to a national audience. Very important from a recruiting standpoint.

[Joe]

Not every BE game will be National Flip, most will be regionally shown under the ESPN +. The deal is awesome, but when you look at it, all it is doing is giving ESPN the rights to produce the games that FSN Chicago, MSG, etc were originally producing.

[Brad]

"If 10-6 in the Big East isn't good enough to get in, then I don't think we should be in the Big East."

-Jim Boeheim, Head Coach - Syracuse

[JoeBulls]

Ark shouldn't have been in and Stanford is very very ifffy.

BUT

Drexel clearly should have been in ahead of Cuse because they beat them heads up.

Cuse was killed by lots of conference tourny upsets.

[windbane]

Drexel is only a #3 seed in the NIT, and FSU beat Clemson the last game of the season in the ACC Tourney and are a #2 seed to Clemson's #1 seed.  They might as well throw out experts when it comes to the NIT.  It just looks like they pick bubble teams out of a hat after the main tourney is filled.

[Triple B]

"If 10-6 in the Big East isn't good enough to get in, then I don't think we should be in the Big East."

-Jim Boeheim, Head Coach - Syracuse

This couldn't have come at a worse time with our search for a new coach. I'd be amazed if we get a head coach that's already having a success getting to the Big Dance at a lower tier conference.... unless we throw a boatload of money at him. Looks like a hungry assistant may be a more realistic option.

[VA_Bull]

The NIT seeds were done by a group of retired coaches.  In other words, "I've heard of FSU & Clemson, they should be #1".

The Cuse and Drexel got screwed.  Arkansas got in by their run in the SEC tourney.