Big East TV Deal

[bullcocky101]

Tulsa doesn't add much as far as TV rights...Southern Miss does. I also like Ohio U. Not much left for valuable additions...Whoever picks us up will have to market the crap out of us.

[WoolyBully]

 Whoever picks us up

 

Probably uses a gurney and has flashing lights on the vehicle.

[slick1ru2]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/21693788/big-east-nbc-sports-network-close-to-tv-deal-worth-20m-annually

Big East, NBC Sports Network close to TV deal worth $20M annually

CBSSports.com wire reports

Feb. 12, 2013 10:53 PM ET

NEW YORK -- The Big East is moving past damage control and toward finally finishing some important business.

Two people familiar with the deal say the Big East is closing in

on a six-year contract with NBC Sports Network for football and

basketball rights that will pay the conference about $20 million

per year.

The people spoke to The Associated Press

on condition of anonymity because negotiations weren't being made

public.

One person said the deal would likely be

announced within the next two weeks. The Big East first has to go

through the process of allowing ESPN, which currently holds the

conference's football TV rights, to match the offer.

ESPN.com first reported the network's offer to the Big East.

The deal being worked on would allow NBC Sports Network to move some Big East games to other networks.

Commissioner Mike Aresco would not confirm any details of the

television deal being worked on, nor exactly when it would be

done, in an interview with the AP on Tuesday.

He did say the Big East was in position to come away with a "wide range of exposure and branding opportunities."

"What we're trying to do is build a solid foundation," Aresco said.

The Big East's current football deal with ESPN expires after the

2013 season and has paid football members about $3.1 million per

year. The deal in the works would pay members about $2 million per

year, depending upon whether the league has 11 or 12 members.

Since Aresco took over in September, 12 schools have announced

they intend to leave the Big East - or not join - including seven

prominent basketball schools that do not play FBS football.

The departures took a toll on the Big East' ability to negotiate a

TV deal, and blew up plans to have a coast-to-coast football

conference, with Boise State anchoring its western division, along

with a huge basketball league that included traditional powers

and name brands such as Georgetown and Villanova.

"Your thinking has to evolve," Aresco said. "There was different

message in the early fall. You have to reassess where you are."

Aresco and the Big East also have been negotiating a

split with officials representing Georgetown, Villanova, St.

John's, Seton Hall, DePaul, Providence and Marquette.

Those school are working to start a new basketball-centric

conference, but it appears they will be spend at least one more

season as part of the Big East.

Among the

issues being discussed by the departing and remaining Big East

members are how to split tens of millions of dollars in revenue and

which group will play under the Big East name.

Notre Dame is also in the Big East for at least one more season before

moving its sports - other than football and hockey - to the

Atlantic Coast Conference.

Football members

Rutgers and Louisville have at least one more season in the Big

East before the Scarlet Knights move to the Big Ten and Cardinals

head to the ACC.

After all those schools announced

they were leaving the Big East, Boise State and San Diego State

reneged on their commitments to join as football-only members for

the 2013 season.

Joining the Big East in 2013 will

be Memphis, Central Florida, SMU and Houston from Conference USA.

Tulane and East Carolina, also from CUSA, come aboard in 2014.

Navy is set to join for football only in 2015.

That would give the Big East 11 members, along with holdovers Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida and Temple.

"We have a lot of untapped potential," he said. "We have teams

that investing (in athletics) and they are all on the rise."

The Big East is likely to add at least one more school to make it

an even 12, split into two football divisions and play conference

championship game.

Tulsa is the leading

candidate to receive the next invite from the Big East, according

to a person familiar with the situation.

Conference

realignment is always a threat to rattle the Big East again, but

Aresco is hoping the league can finally start building for the

future.

"There is potential for growth in this

conference," he said. "Are we looking for the ability to challenge

the so-called power five conferences? Sure we are. No one has a

lock on winning."

[Hem]

Pretty much the same thing I posted last night from AP.

 

Welp...who wants some shots of Draino?

Edited February 13, 2013 by Hem

[widerberg]

Tulsa doesn't add much as far as TV rights...Southern Miss does. I also like Ohio U. Not much left for valuable additions...Whoever picks us up will have to market the crap out of us.

 

Nothing is going to add value to this turd of a conference. Can you blame NBC? If conference expansion kicks off again, you have to think that USF, Cincy, and Uconn are going to be gone, if only to the ACC to backfill them. With the three of us gone, what does NBC have left? Nada. We've got to get out!

[bullcocky101]

2 million IS worth sneezing at.

[slick1ru2]

This article puts a positive spin on it. Yeah, the money is crap BUT NBC is going to be doing a huge marketing campaign to draw in viewers.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/bigeast/2013/02/12/big-east-television-espn-nbc-sports-network-tv/1914005/

 

The Big East and NBC are in serious negotiations to make the embattled conference a primary product provider on NBC's new cable outlet, with massive cross promotion and marketing on the main NBC network, according to person familiar with the talks...

 

 

...Although the initial money from NBA for the Big East is low — first
reported by ESPN to be between 20 and 23 million per season for football
and basketball — it would be only six years in length and open to
renegotiation, with the hope that early exposure and success would
create a bigger market.

 

 

The master plan -- there has been no
official offer made -- would be for the Big East, which has been torn
apart by the defection of 18 teams in football and basketball over the
past few years, to use NBC in a similar way ESPN began in 1979, using
the Big East as one of its early anchor items....

 

Edited February 13, 2013 by slick1ru2

[widerberg]

How much does the MAC get paid per school? We need to get out of the Big East ASAP. Even if we "stabilize," this conference blows. I don't buy the "just win" argument, either. For one, we probably won't "just win." We haven't yet, what makes you think we will in the next 5 to 10 years? We'll have much less capital coming in than we expected, so will be spending less than we do now on athletics. And what blue chip recruit is going to want to play for USF in this dumpster fire of a conference now? Two, the Big East is poison plain and simple. ESPN's smear job and the original BE teams all fleeing like rats from a sinking ship have destroyed any cred that we may have had.

 

If the "Power 5" are finished expanding, it sure feels like the Big East is the wrong place to be long term. It's better than the Sunbelt or CUSA, sure. But, I would rather try to get into the MAC than stay in the Big East. I could see a MAC team that starts winning in a Boise State way getting called up before a winning Big East time does. Former BCS/AQ or not, the Big East has been blacklisted. Ville may have been the last one out, the rest of us are being pushed down with the ship.

[slick1ru2]

How much does the MAC get paid per school? We need to get out of the Big East ASAP. Even if we "stabilize," this conference blows. I don't buy the "just win" argument, either. For one, we probably won't "just win." We haven't yet, what makes you think we will in the next 5 to 10 years? We'll have much less capital coming in than we expected, so will be spending less than we do now on athletics. And what blue chip recruit is going to want to play for USF in this dumpster fire of a conference now? Two, the Big East is poison plain and simple. ESPN's smear job and the original BE teams all fleeing like rats from a sinking ship have destroyed any cred that we may have had.

 

If the "Power 5" are finished expanding, it sure feels like the Big East is the wrong place to be long term. It's better than the Sunbelt or CUSA, sure. But, I would rather try to get into the MAC than stay in the Big East. I could see a MAC team that starts winning in a Boise State way getting called up before a winning Big East time does. Former BCS/AQ or not, the Big East has been blacklisted. Ville may have been the last one out, the rest of us are being pushed down with the ship.

 

 

Obviously, it doesn't matter what any other conference makes at the moment because of the issues of instability and the addition of schools from lower tiered conferences has lessened the value of the Big East at the moment. What does matter is that the Big East is going to have a lot of marketing thrown its way. The spotlight is being turned on and its time to shine or fall.

[Hem]

Can't wait to "shine" in that USF vs Tulane game that nobody will watch.