Big East TV Deal

[Joe]

We were gifted a spot at the BCS table. It's unfortunate, but we've been kicked out. Just win.

[bull-71]

 

 

 

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2013-02-08/big-east-catholic-7-breakup-2014-tv-contract-football-basketball-legal-battle

 

BASKETBALL ONLY

 

 

 

As I said in my previous post, ever since Marinatto left, and McMurphy joined ESPN, he has been consistently wrong and biased against the BEast

 

 

"The Big East is trying to nail down its new television contract; the

league has one for football in this coming season with ESPN, but there

is none for men’s basketball. NBC Sports is aggressively seeking a deal,

ESPN.com reported.

 

NBC Sports Network has verbally offered the Big East between $20 to

$23 million a year for a six-year deal to acquire the media rights for

the league, ESPN.com reported."

 

 

I'm not going for it.

 

If it's basketball only, then after next year, there will only be 7 members in the catholic league. That's about $3m per team just for bball.

 

Granted, it will be the premium basketball league in the country, but the next best league, the A10, only gets about $5m for the whole friggin conference.

 

"$5 million per year, split between 14 teams means each school will get a little more than $350,000 per year from the television contract."

http://www.bigeastcoastbias.com/2012/10/3/3448664/new-atlantic-10-television-contract-shows-big-east-basketball-schools

 

If the A10, only gets $350,000 per team, then NWIH the C7 gets $3,000,000 per team. The numbers are too far off. The C7 will not pull in 10x the advertising revenue of the A10. Just not gonna happen.

 

No, I believe what NBC is bidding on is the combined football and basketball for the NBE, minus the C7. Which means we'll get about $2,000,000 per team once we go to 12 teams. Total

 

Sucks to be us.

 

 

You are right, it is $2 million per school for all sports (including football) ... but its just a starting point, not a contract. Negotiations will bring that money higher, I just hope we can get it up to about $5 million per (or at least what we currently get).

 

Ugh.

 

I sooooooo wanted to be wrong on this.

 

Well, like I said, sucks to be us.

 

But like you said, it's an opening bid.

 

Don't see it going from 2m to 5m, though.

 

3.5 is far more likely than 5, and 3 is probably the most we can hope for.

 

There is a solution...

 

Just win,baby!

 

Go Bulls!!!!

It doesn't matter if we win. We'll never get credit for any out of conference games as of course, the 'Power 5' team just won't have their hearts in the game since they are playing USF. All winning the NBE does is allow the skeptics to say, 'Well, of course USF won. They play nobody. They sure couldn't win it when Rutgers, WVA and Louisville were in the conference."

 

Besides, soon there will be no room left at the inn and there will be no 'elite' conference to go to anyways.

 

All winning does is make us king of the misfits. USF is being seriously downgraded wether we like it or not. 

 

I'm surprised so many posters are still optimistic. 

You are right on....But does it matter to me yes ...but I have Wisdom that comes with age ..Any time I see a Gator I can ask  "I bet you are glad UofL is not in your conference.

 

Go Bulls

[charsibb]

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

[Triple B]

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

 

No way ...  We were extremely fortunate to get that invite and the furthest thing from our mind was getting out right from the start. 

[charsibb]

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

 

No way ...  We were extremely fortunate to get that invite and the furthest thing from our mind was getting out right from the start. 

 

And if the ACC had offered us, we'd have left on day 2.

[hm101]

Anyone who looks at the conference, schedule, tv deal.... whatever ... and says "we're stuck" needs to get out of the way. 

 

That never stopped Boise State / TCU. That shouldn't stop us. I don't give a **** what conference you're in - if you are winning, and putting 60k bodies in the stadium, and making heads turn, the rewards will come. 

 

Anyone who lays down and gives up at this deal, or the new conference needs to shake that mentality. 

[charsibb]

Anyone who looks at the conference, schedule, tv deal.... whatever ... and says "we're stuck" needs to get out of the way. 

 

That never stopped Boise State / TCU. That shouldn't stop us. I don't give a **** what conference you're in - if you are winning, and putting 60k bodies in the stadium, and making heads turn, the rewards will come. 

 

Anyone who lays down and gives up at this deal, or the new conference needs to shake that mentality. 

 

The major issues, IMO, are two:

 

1. Fund raising. Once we were invited to the adult's table, we made a bunch of ongoing spending commitments predicated on an adult's level of income. If we go back to a small baby allowance, we'll need to find huge infusions of cash to cover those commitments. With our alumni base, that's going to be very difficult.

 

2. OOC games. Like Boise found, it will be difficult for us to schedule any decent OOC opponents even if we agree to 2-1, 3-1, or 1-n-dones. There's no upside if they win, and huge downside if they lose. This is all the more relevant now than it was for Boise because SOS is now ,part of the playoff system. We're stuck playing the ODU's and Georgia States of the world.

 

While we're being squeezed from access to funds, we're simultaneously being squeezed from access to competition. Essentially we're back in FCS but still spending like we're in BCS.

[Triple B]

 

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

 

No way ...  We were extremely fortunate to get that invite and the furthest thing from our mind was getting out right from the start. 

 

And if the ACC had offered us, we'd have left on day 2.

 

If you're saying that EVERY program would better their position if afforded the chance, that's pretty much a given ..... doesn't mean they were always "looking". 

[charsibb]

 

 

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

 

No way ...  We were extremely fortunate to get that invite and the furthest thing from our mind was getting out right from the start. 

 

And if the ACC had offered us, we'd have left on day 2.

 

If you're saying that EVERY program would better their position if afforded the chance, that's pretty much a given ..... doesn't mean they were always "looking". 

 

Picky, picky.

 

Shall we say, "keeping one eye open for opportunities" then?

[Triple B]

 

 

 

The demise of the Big East was inherent in its creation.

 

It has ALWAYS been a basketball-first conference. They only created football in order to make a few more bucks, but football was never the main focus.

 

This is why Miami and VT left as soon as the ACC offered.

 

EVERY football team was looking to get out, including us - from the day we got in.

 

This hybrid charlie-foxtrot was always going to blow up. Just be happy for the good times we had, forget the bad times and move forward.

 

No way ...  We were extremely fortunate to get that invite and the furthest thing from our mind was getting out right from the start. 

 

And if the ACC had offered us, we'd have left on day 2.

 

If you're saying that EVERY program would better their position if afforded the chance, that's pretty much a given ..... doesn't mean they were always "looking". 

 

Picky, picky.

 

Shall we say, "keeping one eye open for opportunities" then?

 

Not picky ... just the way you put it, we were ungrateful bastards looking to bail at the first chance, when we should have been sending the decision making inviters fruit baskets.